Example sentences of "fact he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 2 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 3 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 4 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 5 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 6 | Among the weird and wacky weather facts he has accumulated over the years : IN the severe winter of 1814 the Thames froze over for nine weeks . |
| 7 | Thus the only relevant facts he does not know are what period the judiciary have recommended as the tariff , and what further comments the judges have made which will affect the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff . |
| 8 | Also , there is generally no need to assume facts that go clean beyond those given in the problem : had the examiner wanted a discussion of such facts he would have inserted them himself . |
| 9 | By and large , the historian will get the kind of facts he wants . |
| 10 | As Dispensary physician almost the whole burden of the epidemic fell on his shoulders and the women of Aberdeen turned against him , holding him responsible for the facts he revealed , and disputing his fervent belief in the efficacy of purging and heavy bleeding which were ‘ repugnant to popular opinion ’ . |
| 11 | In fact he had his own office and a considerably larger area of carpet than anyone in Berebury suspected . |
| 12 | In fact he found it very difficult not to jerk the stick forwards for recoveries . |
| 13 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 14 | So that when Von Lemke came to ‘ us ’ as governor and felt himself overwhelmed by ‘ our ’ troubles and scandal ; s , he had no toy-making to turn to , he had nowhere to go — his version of the abiding Dostoevsky extremity — and in fact he went mad . |
| 15 | The mere fact he had been invited to the eight-man special event represented progress . |
| 16 | In fact he bears a vague resemblance to Crocodile Dundee , although his strong upper class English accent , roughened by a liking for Rothman cigarettes , quickly dispelled that image . |
| 17 | In 1947 he was well known as one of the authors — in fact he was the chairman of the group and the principal author and the person in charge of publication — of a report to the Archbishop of Canterbury , now Geoffrey Fisher , on the nature of Catholicity . |
| 18 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 19 | In fact he said to me ‘ You could be quite useful , you know , you could help me get through to her . ’ |
| 20 | Keegan duly appeared at the press conference to extol his new club and his sponsors , despite the fact he was known not to drink the product himself . |
| 21 | In fact he was not far from being sick . |
| 22 | HERR NORDERN did not feel better the next morning , in fact he felt considerably worse . |
| 23 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 24 | In fact he does n't . |
| 25 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 26 | In fact he hit it 150 yards , the ball pitched , began to spin back and rolled towards the hole , finishing 10 feet away . |
| 27 | ‘ In fact he was really a very quiet and rather reserved man , who preferred to keep in the background rather than hog the limelight . |
| 28 | The fact he can sit in a room with someone who claims to see the spirits of his loved ones around him brings great comfort , not fright . |
| 29 | In fact he was in danger of disappearing completely . |
| 30 | In fact he used to be seen lunching austerely in his favourite vegetarian restaurant on the corner of Leicester Square , where the permitted maximum of five shillings for the price of a meal could only be spent by earnest application . |