Example sentences of "of [noun] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The touch of genius that he could evince from moment to moment , if he was exercising self-control , distinguished him from other politicians on both sides of the House . |
| 2 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 3 | There was an innocence about Nicholson 's story-telling — practised for the valley children whose company he most enjoyed — so remote from the recent thoughts and experiences of Hope that he was immediately beguiled by it . |
| 4 | When he spoke , his matter-of-fact tone did more to reassure everyone than the actual words of hope that he spoke . |
| 5 | The judge knew this man of old : he was the pit-bull of the legal profession , attacking any weak spots with devastating precision , and seeing him ended the Judge 's faint glimmer of hope that he might just get home in time for the football . |
| 6 | A , a notoriously loose-living man , offers to refrain from publishing his memoirs in a Sunday newspaper , if B will give him £1,000 in recompense for the loss of the fee of £1,000 that he would receive from the newspaper . |
| 7 | But one thing that I would share with you and it 's this , is that whenever the friends of Jesus eat and drink together they remember him his sacrificial love for them and the wonderful gift of freedom that he has made possible . |
| 8 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 9 | He spoke of the feuds which surrounded the succession , and Rostov felt a small chill of worry that he had left Yuan in Nogai 's house . |
| 10 | Always a figure of abuse from the terracing , the taunts of ‘ fixer ’ , ‘ cheat ’ and ‘ bribing bastard ’ brought a level of loathing that he found unacceptable . |
| 11 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 12 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 13 | Six were at sea , on the business of trade — an act of faith that he might have cause to regret . |
| 14 | The books cover the three main areas of literature that he has come to favour since his debut into the world of writing after the 1939–45 War . |
| 15 | He 'd swear of course that he 'd never again steal me from my proper duties with the children . |
| 16 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 17 | He knew of course that he would never be able to halt the train before it reached the bridge and he had his guard 's safety to think about . |
| 18 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 19 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 20 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 21 | Constable said of Lucas that he ‘ showed me to the public without my faults ’ . |
| 22 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 23 | Not satisfied with the haul of birds that he would bring back to Britain , Gould began to consider collecting marsupials as well . |
| 24 | It 's not as if there was a stash of notes that he could extort from Stone and take away with him . |
| 25 | It is because he is concerned only with a private set of notes that he is able to enrich his initial comments in this way . |
| 26 | Consider an example from the new Collins Cobuild dictionary ( 1987 ) , of which Sinclair is editor-in-chief and which is based on just the kind of computer analysis of text that he refers to . |
| 27 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 28 | I have no doubt that the hon. Member for Wigan ( Mr. Stott ) will oppose our present privatisation proposal with the same degree of enthusiasm that he opposed the privatisation proposals introduced on Monday . |
| 29 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 30 | It was not easy to forecast during his first couple of hours that he would be Man of the Match which ultimately was well-deserved . |