Example sentences of "thing he " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 2 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 3 | His is in some ways a tragic case : a man of immense talent and massive erudition , gifted with profound insights , who could not say the things he most wanted to say but who , nevertheless , has gone on to say them . |
| 4 | There are other things he has , on his own admission , not fully investigated , like the value of the DRG properties , or which part of the DRG business he would keep after the break up . |
| 5 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 6 | Some things he longed to talk about — he agonized over the Christians ' attitude to nuclear bombs and it grieved him that Fisher did not agonize . |
| 7 | Wanting Rudd to apply his mind to motor racing again , Chapman gave him his famous 27-page handwritten list of ‘ things he needed to know for F1 ’ . |
| 8 | I du n no what she 's talking about cos I ca n't hear through the glass , but she keeps laughing at things he says . |
| 9 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 10 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 11 | Since this is a family newspaper , one shrinks from recounting the things he bounded round doing on Capri . |
| 12 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 13 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 14 | It 's understood that he has now been twice to complain to the Prime Minister that ministers are trying to make his staff do things he finds improper . |
| 15 | Among other things he chastises Renault for their failure to respond to BMW 's challenge which led to him losing the 1983 world championship , chides Dennis for his lack of punctuality and disinterest in anything that is not his own idea and expresses his admiration and respect for Niki Lauda , with whom he was partnered in 1984 . |
| 16 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 17 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 18 | Some of the things he did were stupid , really childish , like the way he 'd gone off howling in Jubilee Wood . |
| 19 | He fell over things he avoided in daytime like stones and bushes . |
| 20 | They were not sitting next to each other , luckily , but he found himself opposite her accusing face over drinks and remembered the things he 'd last said to her . |
| 21 | She never had been when he was ill ; that was one of the things he disliked about her — unwomanly , he called it . |
| 22 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 23 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 24 | The small , folded sheets on which he was writing down the things he knew about himself . |
| 25 | The things he could do . |
| 26 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 27 | There were other things he burned to know , however . |
| 28 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 29 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 30 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |