Example sentences of "[that] his [noun sg] was [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 2 | Where the blame lay , in the case of the father who stabbed the teacher in a rage after discovering that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , was made less clear . |
| 3 | Robert leaned back in his chair so that his ear was touching the wall . |
| 4 | At a news conference in Damascus on Nov. 6 it was announced by Georges Habash , the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , that his organization was suspending the membership of its representative on the PLO Executive Committee . |
| 5 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |