Example sentences of "[pron] that [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I have changed my mind : Small convinced me that in his case there was no alternative . |
| 2 | Fleischmann told me that in his opinion Jones should have declared his interest to Gajewski more explicitly , not merely that he was interested in the problem , and should have informed Gajewski of his results at that time so that there would be no ambiguity about claims for priority . |
| 3 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 4 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 5 | A former male compositor , apprenticed between the wars , told me that in his school , near Nelson 's printworks in Parkside , the foreman used to come to the top class every year and recruit " the brightest boys " . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that in his written work likewise , he tends to rely rather heavily upon this remarkable dexterity . |
| 7 | In paragraph 2.2 he reminds everybody that in his first report ’ the state of policing in Derbyshire was described as mixed but all too often one of deterioration in infrastructure and morale . ' |
| 8 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 9 | When they arrived , the Chinese had to inform him that in his absence he had been deposed by a military coup in Ghana . |
| 10 | The inspector advised him that in his opinion he had a drink problem and should do something about it . |
| 11 | AD 50–130 ) , informs us that in his day wealthy members of the upper class had private water-clocks and special slaves to read them and announce the hours to their masters . |
| 12 | But London was a puzzle ; for Bede had told us that in his day it was ‘ a mart of many peoples ’ , a trading centre for merchants from overseas as well as for native traffickers . |
| 13 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 14 | We know that at a later date there were steps down to the river as Thorpe tells us that in his time there was a handsome flight of stone stairs remaining which extended from the Palace to the low water mark . |