Example sentences of "that he [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 2 | Funakoshi put on a display of the art for the emperor of Japan , who was so impressed that he asked him to stay in Japan and teach . |
| 3 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 4 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 5 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 6 | Mahmoud had established , though , that he knew him . |
| 7 | This is very clever of Brutus , saying that he loved Caesar more than anybody , and it was for this love that he killed him , to prevent him from the trouble brewing ahead for him . |
| 8 | Sir Francis Walsingham , Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth , though himself a Puritan , was so impressed with Andrewes ' abilities , which he considered would be wasted in a country parish , that he caused him to be appointed Vicar of St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London , and at the same time prebend of St Paul 's Cathedral and chaplain both to the Queen and to the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 9 | ‘ He was going tae go for the barman , ’ Winnie said , ‘ he thought that he insulted him . ’ |
| 10 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 11 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 12 | This was that his dad did not say please come back and he did not say that he loved him . |
| 13 | ‘ If the driver who hit him knows that he hit him , I would urge him to come forward just so that I can know what happened . ’ |
| 14 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 15 | His poems so impressed Thomas Gee , the owner and editor of the influential weekly Baner ac Amserau Cymru ( Banner and Times of Wales ) that he invited him to join his staff as a trainee journalist . |
| 16 | He had been seen in Wales by a DJ who had suggested that he look him up , should he ever come to the big city . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 18 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 19 | 28–8–1866 Norman McLeod , an Elder , had ceased to attend public worship for the last year and two other Elders were sent to find out why , " when he assigned as reasons several charges against the Minister , that his preaching was neither law nor Gospel ; that he considered him aiming at himself personally in his preaching . " |
| 20 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |