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

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1 He had great hopes for it , and told an American friend that he thought it his best to date .
2 Erm , I came down and explained what the nature was , what you wanted to be done , you did n't really explain why and how important that our was , which I felt , that he said what he needing doing , he said what resources he had , and he said that , he did n't really set tasks erm , but he did ask them what they thought they should do you know .
3 The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' .
4 She insisted that he told her he felt ‘ ashamed , embarrassed and dirty ’ about the ‘ kinky ’ relationship , and had continued it only ‘ because he was n't paying her much ’ .
5 It was only much later , in 1981 , that he told me what had happened .
6 I could swear that he told me he did n't know !
7 When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ .
8 He also points out that he told everyone who needed to know what had been decided .
9 She recognised that he meant what he said .
10 One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas :
11 There was no doubting that he meant what he said , and she glared at him , realising that she was beaten .
12 She had planned to appeal to Emerson 's better nature , or , if this failed , to argue that he owed her whatever assistance he could give in return for his earlier deceit of her .
13 His debts to her were never-ending and yet she had never once made him feel that he owed her anything .
14 In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton .
15 Why did she have the feeling that he knew something she did n't ?
16 I was wondering how far I should trust him and had an uncomfortable impression that he knew what I was thinking .
17 With some reluctance , for this generation was not free of sexual solidarity , Tim had to agree that he knew what she meant .
18 that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ?
19 They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century .
20 She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about .
21 We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well .
22 He was a Syrian and there is no question that he knew what he was about .
23 I thought my boyfriend would make sure that he knew what he was doing , " cos at that time I did n't know what I was letting myself in for and also because he was nineteen I said to myself that he was more responsible .
24 lasted quite a period of time because they wanted to make sure that he knew what he was doing and everything
25 She could tell at once that he knew who her caller had been and , from his expression , that his intelligence was working overtime as to why the head of the Massingham empire should ring her personally .
26 She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that .
27 The President looked up and Trent was certain that he knew who he was .
28 It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different .
29 One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed .
30 I take it that , as he did not say that he opposed what we are going to do , we have his wholehearted support .
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