Example sentences of "that he [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , though , the resilient Dunwoody said that he hopes to be back in action at Ascot on Wednesday . |
| 2 | Then , having announced to his prime minister that he hoped to be ‘ a president of national understanding ’ , he was called upon to review a military parade , before proceeding to attend a commemorative mass in the great Gothic Cathedral of St Vitus . |
| 3 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 4 | The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ . |
| 5 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 6 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 7 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Only that he seemed to be in a decent position , and that he died . ’ |
| 9 | Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater . |
| 10 | In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug . |
| 11 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 16 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 17 | At the same time Sartre makes a larger , though less persuasive claim that the boxing-match also works synecdochally and re-exteriorizes a more fundamental violence , namely the interiorized condition of scarcity that he considers to be the basis of conflict in general . |
| 18 | seize , render harmless or destroy any substance or article that he considers to be the cause of imminent danger of serious personal injury . |
| 19 | ‘ Umar Abu Shanab was allegedly tortured while in detention and his relatives fear that he continues to be tortured or ill-treated . |
| 20 | Dr John Stewart , Director of Recruitment and Admissions , told Campus that he continues to be greatly encouraged by the interest shown overseas in Stirling 's undergraduate and postgraduate courses . |
| 21 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 22 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 23 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 24 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 25 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 26 | Carson stood in the open quadrangle of tended plants and empty benches that he assumed to be the ‘ garden area in the middle ’ , and looked around . |
| 27 | ‘ Divine august Frederick is in character and appearance such man that he deserves to be studied even by those not in close contact with him . |
| 28 | ‘ But Danny has shown through his attitude and his skill that he deserves to be in the side and he is under serious consideration for inclusion against QPR . |
| 29 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 30 | Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 . |