Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agassi wore a strapping on his right elbow that he injured during a 45-minute training session on Monday . |
| 2 | Captain Allan Border , as hard and uncompromising as any professional cricketer could be , was so shaken by the news of the loss of his right-hand man that he refused to take the field for the start of the final day 's play of the fourth Test . |
| 3 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 4 | Some attributes of God so express the heart of his divine nature that they are used as titles : |
| 5 | In fact his persistent signalling that he was absorbed in his own ‘ playing ’ was one of the factors holding the rest of the class back . |
| 6 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 7 | In spite of that claim to assistance , Montrose told his political manager that he was unwilling to recommend a candidate for presentation to another peer when he was ‘ intirely ignorant what sort of man he is ’ . |
| 8 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 9 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 10 | His calm presumption that she would sleep with him infuriated her . |
| 11 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 12 | It was an unprecedented sum for a solo album by a drummer , but Draper told his doubting colleagues that he was confident Virgin would see a return on its investment . |
| 13 | His son could capitalize on the mood of the moment , and thereby once again remind his Scottish subjects that they were not mere inhabitants of ‘ the outpost of mankind ’ , but mainstream , up-to-date Europeans . |
| 14 | ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach . |
| 15 | ONCE again Liberal Democrat Cun ben Ord has shown by his public utterances that he is wholly unsuitable for public office ( Echo February 25 ) . |
| 16 | She had n't accepted then — and she was pretty certain that she would n't do so now — his dismissive claim that it was solely due to the pressure of business . |
| 17 | After reading the submission of the Ulster Unionist party , I am delighted to tell the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends that I can add to their happiness . |
| 18 | They stumbled out drowsily , responding with reluctance to his repeated assurance that it was " only a little way " . |
| 19 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 20 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 21 | He also made a comment on one of his early poems that it belonged to his ‘ Imagist period ’ , adding almost sotto voce and in a typical Eliot way — ‘ if there was an Imagist period ’ . |
| 22 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 23 | Griffin kills one of his rejects who he suspects of sending him death threats but such is his oily smoothness that he not only conceals his guilt from lady cop Whoopi Goldberg , but also has the wherewithal to outmaneouvre a pretender to his throne . |
| 24 | When , for the first time , the Reverend John Wesley stopped in Portadown , then a village of about 700 inhabitants , on Friday 10 April 1767 he made his oft-quoted remark that it was ‘ a place not troubled with any kind of religion . ’ |
| 25 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 26 | In the early stages of his political career , Ian Paisley depended a great deal on the Free Presbyterian Church , largely because it was through his evangelistic work that he had become well known . |
| 27 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 28 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 29 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 30 | In the opening sequence the Poet is so concerned with the Friend and his future existence that he seems to write himself out of the picture . |