Example sentences of "[v-ing] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we must be sure that , however shaped in our imagination that goal is , it must be inspired by our lord 's own will for his church praying that his disciples would be one as he and the father are one . |
| 2 | Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles denying that his wife is intimately involved with Prince Charles . |
| 3 | There was no denying that his penetration of my mind , using my eidetic memory to distort the relation between representation and that which was represented , was strident , aggressive even . |
| 4 | His created paradise is still only temporal and whilst denying that his perfection can be reached in the presence of the temptation of women , he accepts the fact they are here to stay . |
| 5 | Whether he stood or sat his form was full of dignity ; the good proportion and grace of his body prevented the observer from noticing that his neck was rather short and his person rather too fleshy . |
| 6 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 7 | Despite his liking for Vaughan , Tindle could not help noticing that his seriousness was veined with self-importance . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you be taken in , I 'm not to be trusted , ’ he said , noticing that his spectacles were steamed up . |
| 9 | Noticing that his younger brother himself was shivering , Dong , who was taller than the average Annamese , inched his long , thin body closer to him and put his arm around his shoulders . |
| 10 | ‘ You knew , did n't you , ’ he said , noticing that his hands were shaking when some of the whisky spilt . |
| 11 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 12 | Laniel became premier in 1953 , announcing that his government ‘ was ready to seize all occasions to make peace , whether in Indo-China or at the international level ’ . |
| 13 | He kept quiet , excepting that his look changed from friendliness to seriousness . |
| 14 | George had reasoned with her , explaining that his daughter had swept the room two days ago , and found nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm interested in the high kitsch and the R- and X-rated love pictures ’ , Professor Rosenblum told The Art Newspaper , explaining that his lecture was based on his preface to the Jeff Koons Handbook , a pocket-sized manual of the artist 's aphorisms newly released by Thames and Hudson . |
| 16 | Later that day he drew a note of credit on an obliging Mr Crump for fifty pounds , explaining that his brother , ‘ The Earl ’ , and himself were re-organising their banking arrangements , he would understand about these matters , certain they did these things better in Liverpool , great embarrassment . |
| 17 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 18 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 19 | Inside the hall of the house in Maryon Park Gardens , a tearful , frightened little man was explaining that his name was Bill Pitkin , that he was not Terry Place , that he had never seen Terry Place nor ever heard of him . |
| 20 | In the mirror she saw him slide open one of his drawers , checking that his suspicion was correct , that the contents of the drawers had become the contents of the packed bag . |
| 21 | In 1919 Lawrence had already written to , of all people , Curzon , confiding that his ‘ own ambition ’ was that the Arabs ‘ should be our first brown dominion and not our last brown colony ’ . |
| 22 | This leaves the manufacturer with the problem of proving that his employees were not negligent and that he was using a safe system . |
| 23 | Mr Le Pen launched a tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his MEPs were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 24 | Mr Le Pen launched his own tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his party members were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 25 | He lost his old job as vice-president in July after suggesting that his boss , Samuel Doe , should resign to stop the country 's civil war . |
| 26 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 27 | Quinn has been interpreted by some as suggesting that his form of incrementalism leads to a steady emergence of change . |
| 28 | Amongst the papers before him stood an empty breakfast cup and an egg-smeared plate , suggesting that his digestion was as robust as his nerve . |
| 29 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 30 | Doubtless it included rent from Garsington as well as from the Whitchurch glebe , which must have been let to farm seeing that his own agricultural interests were limited to a couple of dozen sheep and some poultry . |