Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 2 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's so strong that nothing stops him , ’ commented his trainer , Lucy Wadham . |
| 4 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 5 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 6 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 7 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 8 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 9 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 10 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 11 | I loved Tom McMahon too — you must n't be thinking I did n't , that I cheated him , but it was a different sort of love . |
| 12 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 13 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 15 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 16 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 17 | Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him . |
| 18 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 19 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 20 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 21 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 22 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 24 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 25 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 26 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 27 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 28 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 29 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 30 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |