Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enemies said that he was a politician without a cause , but if that was the worst they could say of him then he could indeed look towards the White House . |
| 2 | A restless movement on his part betrayed that she had provoked him once more , but in a different fashion . |
| 3 | On 16 November Mr. Mahmoud through his solicitors stated that he was selling the property and |
| 4 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 5 | However , examination of his foot showed that he had lost one-third of the skin from his heel . |
| 6 | He wore a country suit of thick , redbrown material , and his skin showed that he spent most of his time in the open air . |
| 7 | Just as whatever production he worked on , his contract specified that he would never work on St David 's Day — the Welsh National Day . |
| 8 | He described this order ( cancelled when the coup collapsed ) variously as reorganization or saving the troops from the Red Army , but his opponents claimed that it was a step taken in collaboration with the coup leaders , and that his newly appointed Foreign Minister Murman Omanidze had held talks in Moscow with Yanayev beforehand . |
| 9 | At Oxford Crown Court his counsel argued that he did not intend to harm Miss Lamplugh and had planned to commit suicide by crashing her car . |
| 10 | Now he was a man , something vague and undecided in his look showed that he had no particular purpose in life . |
| 11 | Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ? |
| 12 | When his Rajputs saw that their leader had fallen , they began to give way . |
| 13 | The set of his mouth suggested that he was angry , and Lindsey felt the dull colour rising in her cheeks as she wondered why . |
| 14 | His words indicated that he was n't so young as he looked , and she said , ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 15 | His words implied that there were two grades of fidelity : one which obliged a fidelis to promote his lord 's interests in all things , and another that simply bound him not to injure him . |
| 16 | Sutcliffe , for example , ( 1982a : 148 ) indicates that his informants reported that they used " Jamaican Creole " with black interlocutors in the playground . |
| 17 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 18 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 19 | Something in the set of his shoulders suggested that his pursuers were not far behind . |
| 20 | Since there are only two lines the reader takes special notice of their meaning and the author can leave his sonnet assured that his message has been received . |
| 21 | The Bishop in his reply added that he had in fact consecrated a third pro-Cathedral ; after extensive repairs , St George 's in York had been re-consecrated by him . |
| 22 | Despite his crippling disease , he had still managed to practise psychiatry with some success ; but finally , the progressive nature of his condition meant that he needed treatment in an intensive care unit with 24-hour-a-day supervision , breathing only with the aid of a respirator . |
| 23 | ( None of his books indicated that he had spent so much of his life in America . ) |
| 24 | ‘ And it came to pass , that when the sun went down , and it was dark , behold a smoking furnace , and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces ’ ; and Abraham in his dream heard that his seed would rule over ‘ the Kenites , and the Kenizzites , and the Kadmonites , and the Hittites , and the Perizzites , and the Rephaims , and the Amorites , and the Canaanites , and the Girgashites , and the Jebusites . ’ |
| 25 | His work suggested that there were two kinds of receptor for adrenaline and adrenaline-like substances . |
| 26 | But he went and got himself an apprenticeship and then his parents saw that he |
| 27 | His brothers had not replied , and his parents wrote that they hoped he was not hurrying into marriage , but that he was old enough to decide for himself . |
| 28 | De Gaulle 's letters in the months before his return stressed that he would take no further initiatives until the French people had demonstrated their disgust with the existing regime and their desire for a radical change . |
| 29 | As he previously spent most of his time living in his cab or in bed-and-breakfast accommodation while he was working , his dismissal meant that he had nowhere to live . |
| 30 | At the beginning of March his council announced that they had set the charge at £400 . |