Example sentences of "his [noun] that [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 2 | But did Didi love him , or was it his wealth , his position in life , his talent that she cared about ? |
| 3 | It was on his head that you returned to the beat on time . |
| 4 | He kept in touch with one or two of his friends that he worked with at as a maltster . |
| 5 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 6 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 7 | Well , Mercer 's father had exactly the same rinds of dead flesh on his hands that we saw in the Delta . |
| 8 | Moran was so taken aback by the way Sheila had seized the envelope from his hand that he stood in amazement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I could tell immediately by the look on his face that he knew about Granny , for news travelled fast in our district and nothing was secret for long . |
| 11 | He showed an exceptional and sustaining dedication to his art in the face of personal loneliness and critical indifference ; it was only after his death that he emerged as a vital influence on writers of the generation of Evelyn Waugh , W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , and Anthony Powell . |