Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 2 | QUAKERS manager Ray Hankin revealed that he gave his players ‘ a bit of a roasting ’ after their fighting 1–0 win at Valley Parade . |
| 3 | He was in a small home reserved for ‘ difficult ’ juveniles , where the matron in charge reported that he wet his bed on occasion and had bad dreams but showed no other signs of disturbance . |
| 4 | Shelley noticed that he put his glasses on as soon as he had towelled his face and head dry , and combed back his damp hair . |
| 5 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 6 | The office gossip was that his wife insisted that he wore his suits until they fell apart . |
| 7 | In the end Maxse 's impatience with and apparent willingness to consider abandoning established institutions meant that he stretched his Conservative credentials to breaking-point , and it is important to note that when at his most extreme Maxse was most isolated . |
| 8 | Mungo noticed that he shaved his black eyebrows . |
| 9 | By the late tenth century he was venerated as St Kenelm , and an eleventh-century Life claimed that he succeeded his father as a child but was murdered by Cwenthryth . |
| 10 | Paul said that he did his work , with tears and with humility ; Jeremiah was humble too ; it 's part and parcel of being a servant of the Lord . |
| 11 | The offworlder 's st'lyan was a bay with brilliant black points , and Jehan saw that he had his bow case strapped to his saddle . |
| 12 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |