Example sentences of "that [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , it was becoming obvious that between his two drivers , Dennis was favouring Prost . |
| 2 | They saw that between his fingers he held a slender , intricately carved set of silver pipes and , as they waited , he lifted the silver pipes to his lips and began to play . |
| 3 | But I ca n't I find it hard to explain why the after such a good performance against West Ham , But you know , it 's just all over , be saying that about his side second half now wo n't he , because they 've just put one point about a nine , and they 're a good side . |
| 4 | John Lloyd , producer of Not The Nine O'Clock News , Spitting Image and Blackadder , says that for his generation of university students 20 years ago Python was the seminal programme . |
| 5 | William Cooper , for example , suggested that for his contemporaries , ‘ the Experimental Novel had got to be brushed out of the way before we could get a proper hearing ’ ( in Rabinovitz 1967 : 7 ) , and C. P. Snow explained in 1958 that : |
| 6 | But he knew that for his expansion plans to work he needed two things : further capital investment , and a designer of genius . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect he wanted that for his holiday — he 's up there now , in the Lake District . |
| 8 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 9 | He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |
| 12 | Mr Waite said that during his captivity he endured torture , a mock execution and four years solitary confinement , including a period in which he lay blindfolded in a foetal position day and night with his hands and feet chained together . |
| 13 | The Reverend S E McCaffrey in an article published in the Circuit Magazine in September 1970 recalls that during his time in Edenderry ( 1928–1932 ) Mr Watson Walker was the oldest Edenderry member . |
| 14 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 15 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |
| 16 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 17 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 18 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 19 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 20 | But it seems that during his war service in Egypt and Italy he contracted tuberculosis . |
| 21 | Again , we have evidence from fieldwork about the functions of these alternants : one man of 27 commented that during his years away from Northern Ireland , he had stopped using what I have called the in-group alternants of the ( pull ) set . |
| 22 | The most obvious explanation for this is that during his years away from home , he would develop a large number of relatively weak ties : in such circumstances , the in-group alternant would cease to have any function for him and so could be abandoned . |
| 23 | One who then worked at Moscow University , Nguyen Khanh Toan , suggests that during his Moscow years he was provided with a Russian wife . |
| 24 | In an interview in 1975 he declared that during his Persepolis party , " the whole world , from the United Nations to every capital , paid tribute to Cyrus and his kingdom … |
| 25 | Shams al-Din al-Jazari , and an ambassador bearing a letter from the Mamluk sultan to Mehmed I. al-Makrizi adds that during his stay , Molla Fenari had given a number of lessons in and in the Basiti mosque . |
| 26 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 27 | What reassurance can the Minister give the dairy farmers of Monmouthshire that during his discussions on GATT their interests will be protected ? |
| 28 | The NSF claimed that during his planned 10-day visit over the Easter period the former King could be the unintentional subject of " obscure manipulations " which might threaten his dignity and safety , and that the publicity surrounding his presence could be seen " as a political gesture of a nature to bring unwanted elements into the election campaign " . |
| 29 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 30 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |