Example sentences of "[that] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thought that his tall uncles in the dark clothes were princes of an élite brotherhood . |
| 2 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 3 | The other members of staff knew that his apparent simpleness was due to a sad childhood ; he had been brutally beaten by his father and this had resulted in his withdrawing into himself . |
| 4 | No one could have told from Mr. Turner 's face that his ice-cold nerve had just saved twenty thousand lives . |
| 5 | It is true that his average support score during his presidency was 76 per cent ( Johnson 's was 83 per cent , and no figures are available for Roosevelt ) , but such scores are of only limited value as a measure of a president 's relationship with the legislature . |
| 6 | The deflection is intended to turn his closed side towards you , so that his immediate counter is restricted to a back fist or suchlike . |
| 7 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 8 | He was a man who was isolated in his world , to such a degree that his immediate environment probably hardly mattered to him . |
| 9 | Claydon has made no secret of the fact that his immediate goal is to win enough to secure a Tour Card for 1990 without having to go to the Qualifying School at La Manga . |
| 10 | Valverde told the commission that his immediate superior at that time , the then Minister of Transport and Communications José Barrionuevo , had had full knowledge of the details of the land purchases . |
| 11 | It was a puzzle , really , how he had ever risen as high as assistant bank manager , although there were rumours that his immediate superior , Mr Quigley , had been confined to a lunatic asylum after claiming that aliens were about to take over South-West London . |
| 12 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 13 | The explosions followed an announcement by Col. Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a fugitive since leading a 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-12 ] , that his rebel forces would resume " tactical operations " which had been suspended since the Cabanatuan City earthquake in July . |
| 14 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 15 | In contrast midfielder Gary Owers produced all his old running power and , now that his serious pelvic injury is a thing of the past , must be favourite to win a place at Wembley . |
| 16 | Mr Kravchuk has clearly been rankled by polls which show that his prime minister is twice as popular as he is . |
| 17 | If the process is to be continued , I hope that his Prime Minister will ensure that he is there to continue it . |
| 18 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 19 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
| 20 | How could she ever have thought that his negligent self-involvement would be enough for her ? |
| 21 | Ironically , he was shot for doing his job well , so well that his acute observation almost certainly saved lives . |
| 22 | Thus an ‘ owl ’ will often pursue his hobbies or interests late into the night so that his preferred life-style will accentuate the natural tendency of his clock . |
| 23 | He conceded that his preferred solution of involving the Soviet Union in a guarantee was impracticable for the time being but it remained the most satisfactory long-term solution . |
| 24 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 25 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |
| 26 | It was with a succession of such hints that Shah Jehan let it be known that his eldest son bathed in an ever-brighter glow of Imperial approval . |
| 27 | At this she turned on Karelius a look of such desperate gratitude that his selfish irritation was quite vanquished . |
| 28 | So keen is he on that approach that his six-year-old daughter Rosie studies with a female gospel singer . |
| 29 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 30 | The French writer Theophile Gautier , for example , observed that his female cat would always listen attentively to the singers that he accompanied on the piano . |