Example sentences of "his [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 2 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 3 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 4 | Michael could see by the look in his eyes that he knew who had ordered his accident . |
| 5 | It is only when he is out of his mind that he strengthens himself unwilling . ’ |
| 6 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 7 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 8 | It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) . |
| 9 | She could tell from his reaction that he found nothing there . |
| 10 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 11 | The Beggar claims it is by speaking of his troubles that he has himself been cured , after a severe change of fortune which has brought him from wealth to his present condition . |
| 12 | Adam took his GCSEs four years early and staff at St Hugh 's College Oxford were so impressed by his brilliance that they offered him a place . |
| 13 | Black despair engulfed him , and a loneliness so absolute closed over his head that he felt himself drowning in it . |
| 14 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 15 | When she went into the kitchen , Philip was there , and she knew from his manner that he had something to say . |
| 16 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 17 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 18 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
| 19 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 20 | So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords . |
| 21 | GEORGE Bernard Shaw wanted to simplify English spelling and had such a bee ( a spelling-bee ? ) in his bonnet that he bequeathed his royalties for its promotion . |
| 22 | It was clear from his success that he understood his adopted country extremely well , a fact underlined by his marriage in June 1979 to a wealthy New York Jewess , Susan Adler . |
| 23 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 24 | It was n't until she was completely out of his sight that she allowed herself to break into a swift trot . |
| 25 | Thingol , Luthien 's father , is so enraged that a mortal should dare to woo his daughter that he says he will only give her hand to Beren if he will wrest one of the Silmarils , or enchanted jewels , from the iron crown of the dark lord Margoth . |
| 26 | He simply had to stake his claim and fight for it , making sure by his works that everybody knew who Cameron Nielson really was . |
| 27 | Such was his ardour that he forced his way into the room where Thatcher sat in tears , threatening in the process to ‘ flatten ’ Sir Peter Morrison , who was barring the door . |
| 28 | I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose . |
| 29 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 30 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |