Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 2 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 3 | It was the positive response to his first efforts that persuaded him to publish another Mahler facsimile . |
| 4 | It was the birth of his own son that confronted him with questions . |
| 5 | For Michael Nader , sexy Dex Dexter of TV 's Dynasty , it was a nightmare in which he saw his own death that convinced him he must break the cocaine habit . |