Example sentences of "and his [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 They had to tell the dairyman and his wife that they were planning to marry .
2 When he then asks to see God 's glory , it is God 's goodness , his graciousness , and his mercy that he sees ( 33.18–19 ) .
3 The Doc 's diagnosis of defender Gary Pallister 's frailties has so incensed Fergie and his players that they are refusing to do interviews for Piccadilly Radio , the station which employs Docherty .
4 ‘ But Danny has shown through his attitude and his skill that he deserves to be in the side and he is under serious consideration for inclusion against QPR .
5 As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ .
6 In an emotional interview he spoke of his fear of the condition and his worry that he will never work again .
7 By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him .
8 He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies .
9 I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers .
10 He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit .
11 What made the whole case so remarkable was his confession to five other murders , his bizarre method of removing the evidence — by dissolving the bodies in acid — and his claims that he indulged in vampirism .
12 But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there .
13 It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one .
14 There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book .
15 He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of .
16 I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it .
17 Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago .
18 He spoke about his wife and his brother-in-law that he was in business with . ’
19 Clever as he was , he was n't sufficiently clever to see this , and his assumption that I was half-witted made me stubbornly worse .
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