Example sentences of "[to-vb] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 2 | I never took a meal with him , but I should be surprised to find that he ate with a good appetite . |
| 3 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 4 | The tears , the bare feet , and the rejection of royal insignia have enough in common with Cnut 's behaviour to indicate that he responded to what he heard preached . |
| 5 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 6 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 7 | At this point in the student 's instruction his sifu will watch to see that he brings into play all the previous concepts of footwork , stance , balance and counter-striking . |
| 8 | And it is fatuous for Mr Paddy Ashdown to claim that he stands in readiness to preserve our democracy with a more moderate alternative to Labour . |
| 9 | Might the assailant be able to claim that he acted in self-defence ? 4 . |
| 10 | WGOL supported Dave by financing the jump and we are pleased to report that he survived without any broken bones ! |
| 11 | They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time . |
| 12 | We think it desirable that the same type of teacher should be employed in these courses ( One-Year , Terminal and less formal ) as in University Tutorial Classes and that arrangements should be made whereby staff-tutors appointed for extra-mural work by the Universities should be encouraged to devote part of their time to less formal work , not only in the interests of the work , but also in order to provide a variety of occupation for the tutor and to ensure that he keeps in touch with all phases of the adult education movement . |
| 13 | No law of equal time exists to ensure that he appears at as many international summits as she does . |
| 14 | A councillor wishing to take advantage of these provisions should consult the Treasurer 's department to ensure that he complies with the formalities . |
| 15 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 16 | This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news . |
| 17 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 18 | That is why he never took up any of the opportunities to teach that he had in his later life . ’ |
| 19 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 20 | They all sort of mourned for him : to think that he died after a settin' in must have been terrible ! |
| 21 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 22 | Surely it would be more accurate to say that he shifted from one theory to another , and that both formulations had their external , political aspect ? |
| 23 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 24 | Interestingly , both versions feature that talented Baroque specialist tenor Christoph Pregardien , superb in both , although if pressed I would have to say that he sounds in fresher voice on Capriccio . |
| 25 | There he reports without comment the statement of the that Molla Arab became Mufti on the death of Molla Gurani , that is , in 893/1488 , and goes on to say that he died in 901/1495–6 . |
| 26 | The court has no jurisdiction either to say that he erred in his application of the general law ( since the general law is not applicable to the decision ) or to reach a contrary view as to the effect of the domestic law ( since the visitor is the sole judge of such domestic law ) . |
| 27 | Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi may , from his actions , be presumed to have disapproved of Seyh Bedreddin , which is not necessarily to say that he disapproved of Molla Fenari . |
| 28 | Much safer for him to say that he approves of better education and better health-care for all . |
| 29 | Which was not to say that he intended to be a martyr tonight , if he could help it . |