Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN UZZELL is entitled to feel bitter about the elbow in the face from Gary Blissett that ended his career . |
| 2 | His eldest son had a mastoid operation ; there was a big building programme that needed his personal attention . |
| 3 | The wind tugged at the banner-pole that carried his standard , outside at the turret , and made a dolorous creaking sound that accompanied his steps along the chilly corridor , and whined faintly in his ears even after he had closed the door and shut out the sound of the rain . |
| 4 | The cutting scorn that hardened his eyes and thinned his mouth made her flinch . |
| 5 | Gascoigne was to have gone to Lazio at the end of July for the club to monitor his rehabilitation after the knee ligament operation that threatened his career . |
| 6 | It was prompt action by auxiliary nurse Jane Hale that saved his life . |
| 7 | FERRUCCIO Lamborghini , founder of the company making the sports cars that bear his name , has died of heart failure in hospital . |
| 8 | It was the questions he implied rather than their apparently subjectivist formulation that ensured his place in current history . |
| 9 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 10 | After the mighty publicity campaign that followed his victory at the Tchaikovsky International Piano and Violin Contest in Moscow in 1958 when he was 24 , Mr Cliburn toured for 20 years . |
| 11 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work perhaps better than anyone . |
| 12 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work better than anyone . |
| 13 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 14 | That that metal man that spins his arms and throws lasers . |
| 15 | But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals . |
| 16 | IN his chairman 's statement , Angus Grossart , of the merchant bank that bears his name , spoke of the need for consistency in financial matters . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's an opportunity to keep my club commitment going and have a look at what the Wales set-up entails ’ , he said in one of the many television interviews that followed his appointment as Davies 's no. 2 . |
| 18 | He also proclaimed himself fit for the job and fully recovered from the heart attack that threatened his career over four years ago . |
| 19 | In Leitrim , David Thomson began twin love affairs that took his life along a particular direction — with Phoebe Kirkwood , his young charge ; and with Ireland , later the focus of many of his broadcasts . |
| 20 | Mitch recovered from surprise and dived into the leather shoulder-bag that contained his lenses . |
| 21 | A BLIND man fought off a bull terrier that attacked his guide dog — by jamming his fist down its throat and smacking it between the eyes . |
| 22 | David Lawrence is putting his feet up … after the trials of test cricket in New Zealand … and after the shattering knee injury that dashed his hopes of playing in the World Cup . |
| 23 | Luke strode along beside her , hands pushed easily into the pockets of the leather jacket he was wearing over jeans and a blue knit shirt that made his skin look even more tanned , his hair richly black . |
| 24 | Days later , Fernandez suspended the Queens school board that refused his curriculum , and ten days after that the board of education reinstated them all . |
| 25 | He did n't look effeminate , even when you considered the plain gold ring that pierced his left earlobe . |
| 26 | His wife Renée , was a cousin of Sigmund Gestetner , who emigrated to England early in the 1930s and made a personal fortune with the copying machine that carried his name . |
| 27 | He falls off his chair in paroxysms of laughter , pointing to the gallery of gold discs that adorn his office wall . |
| 28 | Mr Solarz was once involved in a debate about the collection of tolls on the Verrazano bridge that links his district to Staten Island . |
| 29 | WALES soccer boss Terry Yorath yesterday urged clubs to screen young players for the heart disease that killed his 15-year-old son Daniel . |
| 30 | He was wearing light trousers today , and a light blue polo shirt that hugged his figure , revealing the muscles of his torso in precise detail . |