Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I break his miserable china duck . |
| 2 | So much so that I bought his only copy of it , and earned his cordial loathing . |
| 3 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 4 | He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement . |
| 5 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name . |
| 7 | He was troubled by thoughts of innocence and the loss of it when he dealt with Philippa , and knew that she feared his seeming decay . |
| 8 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 9 | Wild pleasure streaked to every nerve-end in Caroline 's body , the reaction intensifying as he moved his mouth to the other breast , scorching such shafts of response through her that she caught his dark head in her hands , convulsively raking her fingers through the silky curls of his hair , arching herself up to his touch . |
| 10 | If you are liable to do this , then keep hold of the opponent 's ankle as you thrust forwards , lifting and pushing the trapped leg so that you turn his closed side towards you . |
| 11 | asked that we relay his heartfelt thanks to all Wood Group personnel who contributed to his successful visit . |
| 12 | When Gilgamesh later dreamt that Enlil , the father of the gods , had decreed his destiny , it was Enkidu who interpreted for him , explaining that it indicated his certain mortality as well as the gifts of unexampled supremacy over the people and victory in battle . |
| 13 | Before long , he agreed that it suited his single-minded purpose to make peace with his co-star . |
| 14 | This will involve the submission and testing of their product by the potential customer , who will ensure that it meets his technical and operating requirements . |
| 15 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 16 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 17 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 18 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 19 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 20 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 21 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
| 22 | To Dennis 's in the sense that he thought he could act as team-boss without regard for Niki ; to Niki 's in that he thought his personal world outweighed Dennis 's and the team 's . |
| 23 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 24 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
| 25 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | It was then that he felt his true strength as an eagle coming at last . |
| 27 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
| 28 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 29 | But he denied claims that he harassed his 25-year-old secretary . |
| 30 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |