Example sentences of "by [pron] [noun] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Father had been so upset by my bolting that he never wrote . |
| 2 | Frankenstein created a man but he was so disgusted by its sight that he gave it no name . |
| 3 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
| 4 | Two were killed immediately but the Mexican Commander had been so impressed by their bravery that he had spared the lives of the other three . |
| 5 | Luckily the plumber they called out to reconnect the water was so touched by their plight that he waived his fee . |
| 6 | But one artist is so entranced by their beauty that he 's painted nothing else for the last six years . |
| 7 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 8 | Sir John , it appeared , had retained a sufficiently fond memory of his cousin , and was , besides , so moved by her plight that he went himself and fetched her back to Switham . |
| 9 | She and her brother went to see him and he was so touched by her gesture that he burst into tears . |
| 10 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 11 | His appetite these days was small and he could tell by his clothes that he had lost weight . |
| 12 | Johnson was told by his lawyers that he , the churchwardens , the Parochial Church Council and LGCM ( all of whom had applied for the faculty ) were likely to lose the case . |
| 13 | Sandison 's idling thoughts were suddenly overtaken by his realisation that he was in a place far , far from home , a place so different and not exactly hostile but alien , perhaps unknowable . |
| 14 | If the student demonstrated by his choices that he did not fully understand a particular point then the programme could send him round an additional explanatory loop . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know you were religious , Balvinder , ’ surprised by his admission that he had been to the gurdwara . |
| 16 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 17 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 18 | I knew at once by his tone that he meant — ‘ and I do n't think much of it ’ . |
| 19 | It emerged that Harbury had rung Tavett 's home and been told by his wife that he was unwell and had gone to the doctor 's surgery . |
| 20 | After some hesitation she called Ken Harris 's home and was told by his wife that he had not yet returned . |
| 21 | The writer of the article in the June issue ‘ Construction Industry — Its ailments and cures ’ makes it clear by his comments that he is not up-to-date in his knowledge of our industry . |
| 22 | ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad . |
| 23 | I can tell by his face that he has not been successful . |
| 24 | She saw by his face that he had not , and grimaced as she thought of the gruesome tasks she was obliged to perform , degrading both for herself and for her far from easy patient . |
| 25 | One man , told by his doctor that he had cancer , retreated to his bedroom and wept for a week , refusing to eat and waiting to die . |
| 26 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 27 | His documentary ( pretentiously entitled Vaughanssaga ) is blighted by his belief that he is some kind of Broadcasting Artist . |
| 28 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 29 | Dr Neil put his head on one side and said gravely , ‘ You must learn not to be impudent to the Master , McAllister — it really will not do , ’ but she knew by his manner that he was not serious , and she thought again what a pity it was that the ugly scar so spoiled and distorted his face . |
| 30 | He was knocked around so much by his father that he ended up with a crooked leg , but he must have had some courage , because he was the only one of his clutch to survive . |