Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the logical part of his mind acknowledged that in all the world he could hardly have chosen anyone more hopelessly wrong for him . |
| 3 | His data show that between 1978 and 1981 there was virtually no storm runoff or soil wash where forest was undisturbed ; similar results were obtained for the catchment in which traditional farming was practised . |
| 4 | But his parents say that after 2 litres of his favourite blackcurrent drink C-Vit , he became drunk . |
| 5 | His failure to appreciate that at the time is no more than a commentary on the absence of knowledge about child abuse generally among social workers . |
| 6 | His epitaph declared that for him ‘ the study of languages was a necessity , History a relaxation , Philosophy a devotion , Mathematics a delight , Music a duty , Theology a vocation ’ . |
| 7 | He had seemed indefatigable ; his diaries reveal that between 1865 and 1870 he had travelled at least forty-two thousand miles per year , but he died only seven years after his father , leaving the business in the capable hands of his sons Ernest , Frank and Tom . |
| 8 | Maslow in his experiments found that amongst his highest men and women ( those who had fulfilled themselves in life ) there were two distinct groups . |
| 9 | Derrida argues that though history is given the form of a totality by Hegel , his Aufhebung shows that in order to achieve that totality it must constantly transcend itself in a movement of excess . |
| 10 | Though Minton did not begin until the class was all set up and working , the forcefulness of his example meant that at the end of the day there were eight Mintons instead of one . |
| 11 | MacNeill Weir in his guide says that about the year 1827 a large distillery was built close to the River Laggan at Mulindry . |
| 12 | His results indicated that in 88 per cent of the 539 ( this represents a subset of the sample of 671 referred to previously , the missing 132 issues arising because the dates of the underwriting contracts could not be firmly established so that they were excluded from the tests ) issues studied , the underwriters earned positive excess returns . |
| 13 | The despairing jerk of his head to his Sergeant proclaimed that to Charles enough was now enough . |
| 14 | One of his Residents reported that in his presence he felt himself become transparent , every aspect of his character laid bare to Lugard 's innocent penetration . |
| 15 | The relaxation of the censorship which was one of his first actions after the death of his mother meant that in 1780–81 an extraordinary flood of pamphlets ( many of them admittedly on very trivial subjects ) engulfed Vienna . |
| 16 | But his mother says that without the compensation her son had hoped for , it 's his long term future she 's worried about . |
| 17 | His mother says that after such a long legal battle , she 's devastated by the judge 's decision . |
| 18 | Some recent experiments carried out by Corey Goodman in Stanford , California and his colleagues suggest that in insects a small group of pioneer cells may provide a labelled ‘ streetmap ’ along which the developing neurons can navigate by using a simple set of directions to locate their specific targets . |
| 19 | But his family say that in the weeks before his death , Richard had appeared worried . |