Example sentences of "he [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This introduction to Piggy makes you immediately either sympathise with him or think that he was a pathetic little boy . |
| 2 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 3 | The King thanked him and added that he died a Christian and a member of the Church of England . |
| 4 | ‘ A chef as well , ’ she said sweetly , looking up at him and thinking that he must be awfully tall because she was five-ten , and he towered above her . |
| 5 | Since then he had often recalled what Adam said next , had taken the gun from him and remarked that it was a pump-action shot-gun . |
| 6 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 7 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 8 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |
| 9 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 10 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 11 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 12 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 13 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 14 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 15 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 16 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 17 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 18 | Moran had written to him and assumed that he would come . |
| 19 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 20 | She started to bristle , but then she looked at him and saw that his smile was open and good-humoured . |
| 21 | She turned to stare at him and saw that he was smiling — a twisted smile that made her colour rise quickly . |
| 22 | Especially after Bishop Wishart visited him and announced that Seton was not guilty of any involvement in the King 's death . ’ |
| 23 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 24 | Worse , she preferred the pain of being with him and knowing that he did n't return her feelings to the pain of not being with him at all . |
| 25 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 26 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 27 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 28 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 29 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 30 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |