Example sentences of "that [verb] his " in BNC.

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1 We also find that Ito 's response to our Letter contains some omissions and errors that undermine his position .
2 The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person .
3 Midnight turned gently from a blow that grazed his ribs and brought his right fist down , short and deadly , on to the side of the stubbled jaw .
4 Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind .
5 But he was a bisexual , and his sexuality was something that coloured his life to a great extent and , along with a chronic alcohol problem , contributed to his decline .
6 With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition .
7 ‘ Maybe his boats unload there , the ones that bring his mags in , ’ Hitch offered .
8 She seized Sam by the shoulder in a grip that made his eyes water .
9 Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow .
10 There was a lot of pressure on Greg for the fourth round , and that made his eventual victory even greater .
11 Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor .
12 But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive .
13 Sharpe spurred her into a clumsy gallop that made his heavy sword flap in its slings and crash its disc hilt painfully onto his left thigh .
14 Covering his own face with his hands , he was overtaken by silent sobs that made his shoulders shake .
15 He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still .
16 These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning .
17 A red hot rage that made his hands tremble .
18 Though his main stock-in-trade was probably small surveying and drawing instruments , it was his large astronomical instruments that made his reputation .
19 It was the same quality that made his fascination with money so inoffensive .
20 Blagg tried for a head shot and missed , felt a punch in the chest that made his knees fold , but he fired again and saw the pistol fall loose .
21 Luke 's eyes licked over her in a way that made his answer perfectly clear .
22 She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden .
23 Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him .
24 Saw , too , the tiny flecks and threads of topaz and hazel that made his eyes such a compelling and disturbing feature .
25 She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her .
26 Luke strode along beside her , hands pushed easily into the pockets of the leather jacket he was wearing over jeans and a blue knit shirt that made his skin look even more tanned , his hair richly black .
27 He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires .
28 A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack .
29 The chance remark that revealed his deep-rooted chauvinism and basic male insensitivity .
30 He tugged his hair over his left eye , then jerked his head to flip it back : a gesture that revealed his anxiety .
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