Example sentences of "that he [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the title of Khan was a military as well as a civil appointment had not occurred to him until now , but now that he thought about it , the suggestion seemed ridiculous . |
| 2 | His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money . |
| 3 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 4 | He was not sure that he cared about the plot , if one existed . |
| 5 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 6 | As it was , the arrogance that he showed others in his business was mirrored by the doubts that he felt about himself . |
| 7 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 8 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 9 | And if he could be sure of that , there must be other things that he knew about himself . |
| 10 | I could tell immediately by the look on his face that he knew about Granny , for news travelled fast in our district and nothing was secret for long . |
| 11 | Francis once told me that his father , Scott , had two or three that he knew about . |
| 12 | I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house . |
| 13 | There was no medical problem highlighted that he knew about that he should have disclosed on the form . |
| 14 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 15 | I share the agony that he expressed about the way in which Yugoslavia is tearing itself apart , not least because of some loose cannons in the Yugoslav army . |
| 16 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 17 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman had showed even a tiny amount of the indignation that he expresses about empty houses in Swindon in relation to all those in areas under Labour control , there would be scarcely any problems of homelessness in Britain . |
| 19 | In chapter nine Rolle writes a prose-poem about the efficacy of a prayer in which the Holy Name is a focus for all that he understands about the process of redemption . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's an art to tackling and it 's nothing to do with the elbows in faces , eye-poking , testicle-grabbing and raking opponents down their Achilles tendons that he talks about . |
| 21 | of the services of the trusts will be purchased by the health boards he will see how self-evident is the nonsense that he talks about fragmentation . |
| 22 | Erm it 's quite important from the next thing that he talks about is er ex abolishing exorbitant levies , obviously he says as the country is not yet unified and the authority of the imperialist and the warlords have not been overthrown there is as yet no way of removing the heavy burden of government taxes and levies on the peasants . |
| 23 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 24 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 25 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 26 | It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes . |
| 27 | It was after that that he complained about the brakes to Morrison . ’ |
| 28 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 29 | He was so excited that he forgot about the revenge the book was supposed to wreak on his parents . |
| 30 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |