Example sentences of "[noun sg] that he [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good can the simulation be that the player handling the joystick receives a powerful illusion that he himself is part of the counterfeit world . |
| 2 | The law in this area is not confined to contractual relationships , but may also be based ‘ on the broad principle of equity that he who has received information in confidence shall not take unfair advantage of it . ’ |
| 3 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ This Government is asking the long-term sick to bear an unfair burden to bale Mr Major out of the mess that he himself has created . ’ |
| 5 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 6 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 7 | Dahl tends to view elites as a species of potential conspiracy against the public interest ; this is one reason why he rejects the accusation that he himself is a surreptitious elitist and why he prefers to refer to ‘ polyarchy ’ . |
| 8 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 9 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 10 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 11 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 12 | One has the sense that he himself was beached there and that one of his comforts lay in writing out his fears in order to bring his readers to the same sands where he lay struggling for air . |
| 13 | You 've just told this man that he his experience is invalid . |
| 14 | Is he seriously suggestion that he himself is n't totally obsessed with the numbers game ? |
| 15 | The name Northcliffe was linked with raising equity on all five continents but not in such a conspicuous way that he himself garnered personal publicity . |
| 16 | He was also tired and cold , and in between worrying that Prince Richard was lying at the bottom of the lake with a broken neck had been forced to entertain the idea that he himself might be less fit than he should be . |
| 17 | At the same time , some special factor is necessary to explain his extraordinary self-confidence and strength of purposes evinced even in the face of death — the death that he himself engineered and then suffered with such calm that the image of " the dying Socrates " became a new ideal . |
| 18 | The initial Lutheran challenge to papal authority in 1517 had ushered in an age in which Europe would be divided into hostile confessional camps , but , despite the fact that he himself had dispensed with papal authority within his own realm , Henry VIII had been extremely reluctant to accept this reality . |
| 19 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |