Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 5 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 6 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 7 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 8 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 9 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 10 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 11 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 13 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 14 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 15 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 16 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 17 | I do not now deny that I hoped he would lead us to him . |
| 18 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 19 | He accepted , as he watched the anger rekindle her eyes , that she felt he was blackmailing her . |
| 20 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 21 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 22 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 23 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 24 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 25 | The nervous enthusiasm of his expression was such that Miss Daunt afterwards confessed that she thought he was about to use the gun on her . |
| 26 | Luce sat perfectly still , her eyes on his face , her heart beating so loudly that she thought he must hear . |
| 27 | He was aware that she believed he was in need of art . |
| 28 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 29 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 30 | It said something that she knew he 'd never put in words . |