Example sentences of "he [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we 've , we 've alleged in the pleading that he made that he would have suffered erm either all or some part of loses would of been avoided , but that depends upon the facts and we 're |
| 2 | ‘ It was against this background that a man of impeccable character , a man of peace , felt such a degree of frustration and threat to the respectable little community in which he lived that he snapped . ’ |
| 3 | He disclosed that he had delivered a letter from Saddam Hussein to Rafsanjani in Tehran on Feb. 8 containing the Iraqi President 's formal reply to the latest Iranian proposals . |
| 4 | When his laughter had gone , he realised that something was different : lights were showing in the windows . |
| 5 | He had never been afraid or apprehensive before , but now he realised that something was amiss . |
| 6 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 7 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 8 | He realised that they were unlikely to pinpoint a genuine agent in that way , but their familiarity with the Belfast scene was unnerving . |
| 9 | Then he realised that they were referring to their own attack on him . |
| 10 | He realised that they could n't put the fire out and that something was going to happen . |
| 11 | Quiss experienced the tiniest moment of fear , then savage anger , and was about to go down fighting — take as many of the little bastards with him as he could — when he realised that they were bowing and wringing their hands and making apologetic noises , not howling angry ones . |
| 12 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 13 | When Jack had spent the night in friends ' houses after a match he realised that their mothers were not like this . |
| 14 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 15 | But when he realised that we both wanted to do all we could to encourage the best art education for the pupils in the West Riding schools the barriers were down and we became friends . |
| 16 | He had never questioned their presence , but now he realised that it had oppressed him . |
| 17 | He realised that it was improper for Policemen to accept gifts . |
| 18 | Broomhead had at first considered giving the woman a salutation from his vast treasury of filthy language when she approached him , but he realised that it might damage his rather good reputation . |
| 19 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |
| 20 | In that first heart-stopping moment when he realised that it really was her , his impulse had been to run to her , to grab her in his arms and smother her with kisses , to chide her for not waiting until he came back to make her his wife . |
| 21 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 22 | But the stabbing pain in his eardrums was almost welcome , as the roaring subsided to a grumbling , faraway avalanche and he realised that it was only the sound of the storm . |
| 23 | In the same moment , he realised that it would be extremely dangerous for Fenella to join them . |
| 24 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 25 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 26 | Sean decided to take the money because he realised that it would be difficult to live with no money . |
| 27 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
| 28 | Today 's prayer was written by someone who must have experienced the terrible sense of desolation that Cardinal Newman spoke about — it was written by the great composer , Beethoven , at a time when he realised that his deafness was incurable . |
| 29 | A man I know told me that he was twenty years old before he realised that his mother really loved him . |
| 30 | He begins by telling us that , while researching the novel at the Weizmann Institute , he realised that his ideas for the story were remarkably close to the truth . |