Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] his [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book follows Deckard 's progress both in the pursuit of the androids and in his realisation that it is not ‘ retirement ’ but murder . |
| 2 | By his youth he showed me how late it was , and by his admiration that it was not yet too late . |
| 3 | His experience of the war changed him — not in his belief that change was necessary but in his optimism that it could be brought about . |
| 4 | Perhaps , though , it was because of his promise that he would think about it , that she saw that as a favourable hope . |
| 5 | In a series of conversations with the Frenchman Didier Eribon published by Thames and Hudson this month , Sir Ernst Gombrich , former director of the Warburg Institute and one of the most distinguished academics of our time ( yet one of the most accessible because of his belief that it should be possible to explain everything in language that can be understood by a child ) , talks about the development of his ideas , his values and the events which contributed to their formation . |
| 6 | As for his suggestion that I should comment or write on the series , I did not follow this up . |