Example sentences of "that he [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 2 | That he 'd seen no-one and had n't been anywhere near the clunch pit or the derelict car . |
| 3 | Nolan was disconcerted by having lost on Groundsel though I could n't see that he 'd done anything wrong . |
| 4 | It was just possible that he 'd discovered something about Puddephat . |
| 5 | Outside , the guard shook his head at the antics of the scientists , disturbed only by the niggling sensation that he 'd overlooked something . |
| 6 | He stood almost immediately , and only Bernice noticed that , by aiming a bony finger at the floor , he was covering the fact that he 'd pocketed something . |
| 7 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 8 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 9 | It was all very well to remind herself that she and William were individuals who gloried in their independence , and that he had said nothing about getting in touch or when he would be back . |
| 10 | I asked him what he had told the Department of Trade and Industry , and he said that he had said nothing . |
| 11 | He absorbed another spoonful of nursery food , thinking that he had said something rather good which could be used in next week 's article . |
| 12 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 13 | But all that had really happened that evening , he thought , was that he had developed something that was very nearly envy of Dave Fernie . |
| 14 | If he could confront physical danger and win he could go to bed feeling that he had achieved something with his day . |
| 15 | Indeed , the vaguer the linkage , the greater would be his need , after withdrawal , to show that he had achieved something real . |
| 16 | We called at the cottage at night , and found he was very ill , and it was not till the factor assured him he was joking , and that he had swallowed none other than the best of whiskey , that he rose from bed , and Donald was himself again . |
| 17 | Nicholas knew that he had to do something , but he was not sure what . |
| 18 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 19 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 20 | One child is particularly proud of his work : it contains many letters , large and boldly formed , and this was the first occasion that he had written anything since arriving in the school . |
| 21 | For a moment he thought that he had felt something , an infinitesimal trembling of the earth . |
| 22 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 23 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 24 | Mellor insisted throughout that he had done nothing improper in accepting this hospitality . |
| 25 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 26 | For the rest of the day he could hardly concentrate on any problem , caught between contrition that he had done something wrong in inviting Benedicta and pleasure that she had so readily accepted . |
| 27 | Ms Davis said that Orchard had denied to officers that he had done anything ‘ funny ’ to the girl . |
| 28 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 29 | Although it was getting dusk , he was certain that he had seen someone or something fall from the bridge . |
| 30 | Giving no sign that he had heard anything he went through his routine again . |