Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 2 | He gave me an orange card that advertised his status as PROFESSIONAL SURFER. but he was still a child at heart and surfing was still a game . |
| 3 | Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received . |
| 4 | He did n't look effeminate , even when you considered the plain gold ring that pierced his left earlobe . |
| 5 | The crucial ingredient that turned his clothes into something outstandingly elegant always came from the woman wearing them . |
| 6 | His grave is unmarked and it may be that the absence of a memorial stone is connected with the erection of the monument that bears his name . |
| 7 | A chronicle that recorded his reign includes this fascinating footnote to history , ‘ Another law that he made , that wives of common men shall be free to the nobles ; and the Lord of the ground shall have the maidenheads of all the virgins dwelling in the same ’ . |
| 8 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 9 | It was his cool nerve that saw his club through a nervous semi-final against Coleraine . |
| 10 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 11 | STEVE REDMOND today goes back to the club that broke his heart aiming to prove Manchester City were wrong to let him go . |
| 12 | Rory went over to the seat that held his jacket . |
| 13 | The man was slight , with stooped shoulders , a pink face and thick spectacles that magnified his eyes , making the sockets look like deep pits in his skull . |
| 14 | In 1973 Waddell admitted to two BBC reporters that he had taken part in the Ayr murder , unaware that one of them was carrying a concealed tape-recorder ; and a programme that included his confession was subsequently broadcast . |
| 15 | His eldest son had a mastoid operation ; there was a big building programme that needed his personal attention . |
| 16 | He probably thought it was the gale that blasted his door open , but for the next hour he was busy dispensing more whisky than he would normally expect to sell in a week . |
| 17 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 18 | It was as if , the weeks of turmoil and uncertainty that followed his father 's death having turned into months , the tumultuous turn of events had proved too much for a youth of his years . |
| 19 | He had lost the diffidence and uncertainty that characterised his early leadership of the party . |
| 20 | Ally McCoist , who invited Malta to take that with the two goals that took his tally for Scotland to 15 , also thrived on the good service provided by Pat Nevin , John Collins and Paul McStay . |
| 21 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 22 | The agent stopped struggling and hung there , aware of the pain in his wrists and the rasping against his skin , but even more conscious of the massive welts and blisters that covered his throbbing hand . |
| 23 | FERRUCCIO Lamborghini , founder of the company making the sports cars that bear his name , has died of heart failure in hospital . |
| 24 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 25 | Mr Jarrett said she saw the four defendants go for Mr Johnson , holding knives and stabbing at him uttering threat of drawing blood.It was a fatal single stab wound to the neck that caused his death . |
| 26 | The following user describes the dilemma that faced his parents : |
| 27 | Here was a living , walking , strutting answer to Hollywood 's prayers , for Cagney 's personality served to sanction the suggestions of violence that characterized his films . |
| 28 | General Booth of the Salvation Army , had recognition by the City of London conferring on him the Freedom of the City , in 1905 , which was also the year when Dr. T.J. Barnard ( the founder of the Children 's Homes that bear his name ) , died on 19th , September . |
| 29 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 30 | Initially ( Chapter 2 ) , I shall trace the progressive development of Nizan 's life and work between 1905 and 1939 by focusing on the three formative structural influences that shaped his existence : the family unit , the schooling system and the communist party . |