Example sentences of "of [pron] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 2 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 3 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 4 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 5 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 6 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 7 | You know one of his that he makes ? |
| 8 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 9 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 10 | John Lawlor , a pupil from 1936 onwards , said of himself that he ‘ passed from dislike and hostility to stubborn affection , and then to gratitude for the weekly bout in which no quarter was asked or given ’ . |
| 11 | He encouraged himself with promises that after ten paces he could rest , then demanded of himself that he manage another five and another five until he lost count of how far he 'd come and how far he had to go . |
| 12 | He wrote of himself that he had a ‘ heart full of blood & quick of impression ’ , was ‘ hasty of determination ’ , and ‘ leaky of secrets ’ . |
| 13 | He says of himself that he was , that there was a curious pleasure in making oneself believe that time and space are unreal , that matter is an illusion , and that the world really exists , consists of nothing but mind . |
| 14 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 15 | He could organize the final output of everything that he had thought , right from the beginning through to end . |
| 16 | He could organise the final output of everything that he had thought right from beginning through to end . |
| 17 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 18 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 19 | He came — she felt the moment in pain and sadness — but he continued to move , banging at her , clutching just that part of her that he needed , as if he 'd felt nothing , as if he did n't know when to stop . |
| 20 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 21 | ‘ Now , Taggy , you know well it is because of her that he had nothing . |
| 22 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 23 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 24 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 25 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 26 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 27 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 28 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 29 | Epictetus said of him that he offered no handle for another person to grip and hurt him . |
| 30 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |