Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 2 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 3 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 4 | The fact that it emerged he was a retired civil servant was an additional bonus . |
| 5 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 6 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 7 | ‘ And , of course , there was the fact that you wanted him . ’ |
| 8 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 9 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 10 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 11 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 13 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 14 | Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him . |
| 15 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 16 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 17 | It certainly did n't change the fact that she disliked him intensely . |