Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This belief not only increases the beneficial effects of the specific therapy but also helps him to become more confident in general as well as in his ability to change anything about himself or his life that he does not like . |
| 2 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 3 | When he then asks to see God 's glory , it is God 's goodness , his graciousness , and his mercy that he sees ( 33.18–19 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ But Danny has shown through his attitude and his skill that he deserves to be in the side and he is under serious consideration for inclusion against QPR . |
| 5 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 6 | What made the whole case so remarkable was his confession to five other murders , his bizarre method of removing the evidence — by dissolving the bodies in acid — and his claims that he indulged in vampirism . |
| 7 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 8 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |
| 9 | Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago . |
| 10 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 11 | Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke . |
| 12 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 13 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |