Example sentences of "[to-vb] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only ‘ power ’ was to request that his name be removed from the story . |
| 2 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 3 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 4 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 5 | After being seen daily for 3 days David started to accept that his wife was not going to return home . |
| 6 | Anglican Bishop Hugh Montefiore is less keen to accept that his church is losing influence . |
| 7 | Carter himself , however , has been reluctant to accept that his record in dealing with congress was particularly bad . |
| 8 | In fact , Darwin converted the scientific world to evolutionism despite an almost universal refusal to accept that his theory of natural selection offered an adequate explanation of how the process works . |
| 9 | When all hope had gone , he seemed to accept that his death was certain , and he became calm and quiet . |
| 10 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the new Secretary of State for Trade & Industry may be interested to know that his powerful exhortations last week to vote Tory were unsuccessful with his daughter Annabel . |
| 11 | It is reassuring to know that his duties will include responsibility for the BBC , for as George Walden argues on this page , it was he who rescued the Broadcasting Bill after the last Thatcher government made such a hash of television deregulation . |
| 12 | Stalin was not to know that his criteria would exclude many nations that were subsequently to emerge ( for example , Pakistan , without a common language or territory , but with a common religion ) , and force some groups into being nations ( the most notorious example being the black American population ) . |
| 13 | The weather was beautiful and those who were fortunate to know that his special was operating and were able to be somewhere along the route were fortunate to share a most attractive experience . |
| 14 | He tells sister that he is relieved to know that his illness is treatable but is not sure how to change his lifestyle . |
| 15 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |
| 16 | I do n't know if it would be much consolation to someone being made into spaghetti in a black hole to know that his particles might survive . |
| 17 | Nor might it be much consolation to him , as he ran into the singularity in real time , to know that his particles will survive in imaginary time . |
| 18 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
| 19 | After he had hit , Silva chased up the hill to establish that his ball had stuck fast to the putting surface . |
| 20 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 21 | The composer Henri Sauguet was astonished to discover that his cat , Cody , became ecstatic when it heard Debussy being played on the piano . |
| 22 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 23 | The Gospel of John tells of the royal officer who returns home to discover that his son has recovered : ‘ The father noted [ knew ] that this was the exact time when Jesus had said to him , ‘ Your son will live ’ , and he and all his household became believers . ’ |
| 24 | Tinnion is appalled to discover that his old friend proposes to throw in his lot with the Nazis . |
| 25 | When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service . |
| 26 | Physically she had to admit he still turned her on and probably always would , but , having found out just how irritating he could be to live with she was furious to discover that his sex appeal was far too potent a force for her feelings to be seriously affected , no matter how cross with him she felt at the moment . |
| 27 | RICHARD Wallace , the British Lions ' replacement wing for the injured Ian Hunter , learned about his emergency call-up in a Moscow bar called Rosie O'Grady 's — a great place for an Irishman to discover that his summer plans were cancelled . |
| 28 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 29 | Despite his apparent desire , matching the sudden irrational flaring of her own treacherous libido , he still suspected her of having designs on the family fortune , and she would n't be at all surprised to discover that his attempt to kiss her just now had been a sort of test . |
| 30 | It was frustrating to discover that his nearness could make her feel so vulnerable . |