Example sentences of "that he [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day that he heard of the post at Shrewsbury , however , another letter reached him , addressed in an unfamiliar hand . |
| 2 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 3 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 4 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 5 | All that he thought of her ? |
| 6 | It was then that he remembered Dobson , then that he thought of Mary . |
| 7 | His tone suggested that he disapproved of the notion . ’ |
| 8 | Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi may , from his actions , be presumed to have disapproved of Seyh Bedreddin , which is not necessarily to say that he disapproved of Molla Fenari . |
| 9 | On the night of Thursday Cameron slept badly , for no reason that he knew of . |
| 10 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 11 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 12 | The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 . |
| 13 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 14 | Mr Barnes was delighted to hear from him , which made Peter suspect that he knew of Coleby 's interest in 29 Champney Road . |
| 15 | Mr. A. Harman , confidential clerk at the brewery , wrote to Whitbread saying that the Attorney-General ( Spencer Perceval ) had stated that he knew of no security having been given for the sum of money in Mr. Whitbread 's will . |
| 16 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
| 17 | Safi was obviously excited by something , but his usual bonhomie was so much in evidence that we could n't imagine that he knew of anything ghastly in the offing . |
| 18 | There was no such refuge that he knew of . |
| 19 | Erdle kept hinting that he knew of something unsavoury about him — or possibly his family — and the angrier Gebrec became , the more Erdle taunted him . ’ |
| 20 | For example , a county GRIST coordinator ( formerly a mathematics teacher ) who claimed that he knew of the Report but had not read it , made the following eloquent and not untypical statement : |
| 21 | That he knew of death 's approach and had time to prepare for it , and that others knew and were preparing too , is implied not only by S 975 but also the rapidity of the ætheling Alfred 's actions late in the year . |
| 22 | Charles Lambe claimed that he knew of some Dissenters who " will not touch either Food or Raiment , that was not bought in the Shop of a Fanatick . |
| 23 | Mr Smith mocked Mr Major that he knew of the ‘ menace of the men in grey suits . |
| 24 | Mr Smith mocked Mr Major that he knew of the ‘ menace of the men in grey suits . |
| 25 | One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure . |
| 26 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 27 | WHEN he was having his treatment , Roy told me through a mouth full of ulcers that he dreamed of having a Madras curry . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend referred to the opportunity that he had of presenting the result of the vote on the 1986 Bill . |
| 29 | The biblical text suggests simply that he spoke of them , knowledgeable man that he was . |
| 30 | The subsequent release of 1,300 pages of witness interviews and depositions collected by the police during their investigation contained many inconsistencies , but appeared to contradict Senator Kennedy 's assertion that he learned of the alleged assault only after returning to Washington DC on April 1 . |