Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he 's a bit petulant with Lonnie , who aims to see that he keeps his date at Hilton Head Island . |
| 2 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 3 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |
| 4 | He was born Femão de Magalhães , and the Portuguese — ‘ he is ours ’ , they insist — rarely care to acknowledge that he renounced his citizenship after a row , pledged his allegiance to King Charles I — later to become the Emperor Charles V — and was given a new name : Hernando de Magallanes . |
| 5 | The support of the press was seen as being vital and every manager was expected to ensure that he had his local newspapers on his side , but even this was not enough . |
| 6 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 7 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 8 | It was when he tried to move that he found his robe was caught on some obstruction . |
| 9 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 10 | I should like to say that I recognized his genius . |
| 11 | She had the cheek to say that she felt his wife would n't like it . |
| 12 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets stuck into the CAP , on which matter I hope that he will be as robust as my right hon. Friend in defending the interests of the British farmer , may I advise him that I was interested to note that he began his speech by talking about animal diseases and BSE ? |