Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] [vb past] he " in BNC.

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1 he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse .
2 I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train .
3 Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure .
4 She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea .
5 He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith .
6 In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law .
7 He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA .
8 During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns .
9 Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest .
10 As the warrior Solor he possessed neither the exotic glamour of Ruzimatov nor the romantic height of Cope — and a dispassionate viewer would admit that his turban gave him an unfortunately gnome-like appearance .
11 George found that his position enabled him to divert a little of the firm 's money into his own pocket .
12 In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker .
13 The only detail known of his marriage is that his wife survived him , and died at Mile End in London in 1793 , aged eighty-four .
14 Erm I asked and she said that his dad sent him off to get it X-rayed and she goes , But he 's had a history with his toe poor blighter .
15 Her father could no longer understand her or her behaviour , and Catherine did not realize that his illness made him less patient with her .
16 Plato 's claims , for instance , that his work enabled him to ‘ rise above ideology and the immediacy of mundane affairs ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) have been accepted faithfully by classicists who wanted to believe what he said because of its significance for their position in and views of their own society .
17 Jason tells the press that his solicitor told him ‘ Mr Carman was a good man to get ’ .
18 Mr Sjogren repeated that his client insisted he had nothing to do with the explosion that brought down PanAm 103 .
19 His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt .
20 I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ .
21 Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University .
22 Did not our Lord declare that His Father heard Him always ?
23 I know he loved me , but he was never sure that his father loved him . ’
24 Ian Watson , the student in question was a clever young man who had worked very hard to achieve his place at the higher seat of learning ; he found it very difficult to manage on the pittance that his father allowed him .
25 It is startling to read that his father paid him a visit in hospital , though presumably without knowing his son was being treated for gonorrhoea .
26 Michael Williams , president of the Senate , resigned on March 8 , 1990 , complaining that his post prevented him from making comments on public issues .
27 You know Paul has lent me some very clean but very ugly old fashioned trays of the sort that people have in restaurants that his mother lent him and they 're they 're a God send !
28 One assumes he also had a Christian name and that his mother loved him , but one thing is certain , nobody else at Binbrook did .
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