Example sentences of "that he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud was so impressed by the amount of brutality men have inflicted on one another , and have continued to inflict on one another , that he felt justified in developing what he thought of as a mythology of two conflicting instincts : sexuality and death , Eros and Thanatos . |
| 2 | He also said , rashly , that he felt stirred by the efforts of American radicals . |
| 3 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 4 | What I what I thought was , well let's have erm , Woodrow Wilson , okay , as you said at the beginning of the book , Freud admits that he did n't like Wilson , and that he felt betrayed by Wilson , like a lot of people in Central Europe did I suppose , because you know , Wilson came over erm , with fourteen points as the saviour of the world , and went away leaving with a piece of . |
| 5 | The Grenadiers and Chasseurs , finding that the town was impassable , crossed the little River Dyle to the west , and it would seem that he became separated from them . |
| 6 | When Paul was encouraged at Corinth by the fellowship of Priscilla and Aquila we read that he became gripped by the Word ( 18:5 ) . |
| 7 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 8 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 9 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 10 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 11 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 12 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary has made it absolutely clear that he remains committed to meeting our obligation to genuine refugees . |
| 14 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |
| 15 | After he had stabled Philomel , Athelstan remembered the verses from Scripture and studied the great leather-bound Bible that he kept chained in his house 's one and only cupboard . |
| 16 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'd given everything to make my husband what he was , or that he 'd cheated on me . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's a lad with bags of confidence and was quick to let me know that he 'd scored on his debut and I had n't . |
| 19 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 20 | And he 'd drawn and coloured the cross that he 'd seen on his mother 's bed . |
| 21 | But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues . |
| 22 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 23 | All 180 kids gathered right at his feet and he did a completely different show from any show that he 'd done in the sell-out places for five or six thousand . |
| 24 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 25 | Blacksmiths were the thing on the side of the road , did n't he do all the wheeling , mend your wheels , and all horse , all iron wheels , and things like that , wo n't years ago , and you had to send for him to come and do 'em , w well , he had men that he 'd , that he 'd taught like boys , apprentices . |
| 26 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 27 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 28 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 29 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 30 | All that it would take would be a couple more calls like the one that he 'd received at home , at three o'clock that same morning , from the night manager of a certain parkside hotel . |