Example sentences of "that he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 3 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 4 | She had known that he wrote poetry , but she had never read or heard any of it before . |
| 5 | Walesa , addressing his former workmates at the Gdansk shipyard on June 3 , stated that he advocated rule by decree during a transitional period but that parliament opposed this . |
| 6 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 7 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 8 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 9 | He was so rip-roaring drunk , in fact , that he made newspaper headlines the next day . |
| 10 | OCT 3 : Allegations that he made V-sign to Chelsea fans at Highbury after scoring Arsenal 's late winner — again not proven . |
| 11 | What the little boys remembered about his class was that he made divinity fun , even though it was before breakfast . |
| 12 | When asked if he thought a ‘ level playing field ’ would ever be achieved Heseltine said that he thought change would take place , but not just because politicians wish it . |
| 13 | And Goebbels 's own diary jottings leave little doubt that he thought morale was severely shaken by the bombing , and the will to resist potentially weakened . |
| 14 | The rumour was that he thought Horn resembled Rudolf Hess , and had rung Turnhouse to tell the Duke of Hamilton so . |
| 15 | In 1930 , though , Eliot wrote to Dobrée that he thought order and authority dangerous catchwords and was horrified at the modern scorning of democracy ; he worried about the way national and racial characteristics were becoming contested issues . |
| 16 | I learned later that he thought stupidity the norm for human behaviour , and that no one was as stupid as passengers , politicians , pressmen and the people who employed him . |
| 17 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 18 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 19 | I think that is actually something that I like about him , the fact that he left school early , that he did actually have to struggle . |
| 20 | and er she 's chuntering on to on to her granddad and he pulled a stalk out like that he said brussel sprouts , she says brussel sprouts granddad |
| 21 | Howe , in a message of hope , said that he hoped unemployment had peaked , but he was n't banking on it . |
| 22 | surrounded by his remarkable collection of relics and reminders of Napoleon , dreamed only of taking the lead in a successful war of conquest , … said that he hoped war would occur while his father was alive ; but , if not , he would start a war the moment he came to the throne . |
| 23 | To her he confessed that he hoped residence at Lincoln would banish his ‘ moods ’ and in the same letter he reflected on his own mother 's ‘ love and uncertainty , in her melancholy unconfident way ’ . |
| 24 | He concluded that he shared responsibility for hiring Sutton . |
| 25 | And New Zealand admit Chris Pringle became so angry at Pakistan 's tricks that he produced life-time best Test figures of 11 for 152 after scuffing the ball . |
| 26 | My Lords erm I was deeply appreciative of er the my Noble Friend , Lord Boyd-Carpenter insofar as he said that he felt sympathy for me . |
| 27 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
| 28 | Angie Bowie : ‘ There was a lot of garbage said about him feeling schizoid and it was all so crazy and easy to say that he felt schizoid because of Ziggy Stardust . |
| 29 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 30 | Having given a sketchy account of his early career , he notes that he became kazasker in 863/1458–9 and was then removed from that post in 871/1466–7 . |