Example sentences of "that he came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he came with the gold ships , Cadmus , |
| 2 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 3 | Bowling resembles a number of older artists in the exhibition in that he came to England ( from Guyana , in his case ) to be an artist , had some success , then moved to and fro between London and New York when his public career went downhill in the Sixties . |
| 4 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 5 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 6 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 7 | That is , that he came to Earth to save mankind from the wrong in the world , which separates us from God . |
| 8 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 9 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 10 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 11 | It was there , in Hanover , about 1716 that he came to the notice of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 12 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 13 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 14 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 15 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 16 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 18 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 19 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 20 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1905 , Robert Connolly , a groom aged thirty-eight , applied for admission to the casual wards , saying that he came from Wellingborough , and was on his way to London . |
| 22 | She discovered that he was nineteen ( a year younger than her ) , that he came from the Kovno province of Poland and had escaped with his widowed mother and two elder brothers and young sister . |
| 23 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 24 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 25 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 26 | She racked her brains to remember what she had said about Barnes to David Fairfax , but she had said nothing , only that he came from Woodlands Incorporated — and that , because she was still holding his card in her hand . |
| 27 | It had never occurred to her that he came from the sort of background where servants were a matter of course and all one had to do in order to eat was pull a bell . |
| 28 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |