Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] [that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professional dealing with Stefan 's case felt that his mother , who had generated these ideas herself , had really understood the technique very well . |
| 2 | Mankiewicz always refuted stories that Sinatra gave him a hard time on the set , but one of Mankiewicz 's sons said that his father ‘ finished the picture hating Sinatra ’ . |
| 3 | Mrs Hancock 's lawyer said that his client and Mrs Rinehart had reached a compromise over access to the body so that the funeral could go ahead . |
| 4 | Bill Clinton 's aides promised that his next 100 days would be characterised by discipline , a sharper focus and more trips outside Washington . |
| 5 | But Cleveland Coroner 's Court heard that his benders got worse after the tanker BT Nautilus spilled 260,000 gallons of oil into a busy shipping channel near New York in June , 1990 . |
| 6 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 7 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 8 | Anthony Hope 's detachment meant that his story could be free from contemporary political overtones : if he was expressing any apprehensions about the state of Europe , they were not visible in his books as they are in Erskine Childers 's thriller , The Riddle of the Sands , or in Buchan 's ‘ Ruritanian ’ novels . |
| 9 | Mr Goodman 's solicitor suggested that his contract should include an arbitration clause because the parties had failed to agree all the terms of his employment before he started work . |