Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father felt that his lack of poise and connections had led him to being passed over in favor of people of less ability but more social graces . |
| 2 | ( A friend of my youth held that his main aim in life was to become a dirty old man : an aim which one can now see was almost enlightened ! ) |
| 3 | ‘ Er — he 's out playing golf , ’ her mother replied , and , while Leith was beginning to wonder how long it would be before her father discovered that his joint savings account with his wife had a dent in it , her mother was swiftly changing the subject . |
| 4 | Something in the set of his shoulders suggested that his pursuers were not far behind . |
| 5 | Since there are only two lines the reader takes special notice of their meaning and the author can leave his sonnet assured that his message has been received . |
| 6 | ‘ And it came to pass , that when the sun went down , and it was dark , behold a smoking furnace , and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces ’ ; and Abraham in his dream heard that his seed would rule over ‘ the Kenites , and the Kenizzites , and the Kadmonites , and the Hittites , and the Perizzites , and the Rephaims , and the Amorites , and the Canaanites , and the Girgashites , and the Jebusites . ’ |
| 7 | Already he was wondering if his fame meant that his writing had only a contemporary appeal and he complained that people now thought of him as a celebrity rather than as a poet . |
| 8 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 9 | When the records came in his father joked that his son was trying to put him out of business . |
| 10 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 11 | He considered returning to Belfast , but his tormentors anticipated that his mind would turn in that direction . |
| 12 | It was nearly an hour before Alex appeared in the pub , and one look at his face told that his expectation had not been realised . |
| 13 | ‘ Meredith , ’ he said quietly , his voice as soft as silk , ‘ your father ordered that his possessions should be burnt . |