Example sentences of "that his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 2 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 3 | But at the end of a very long , very hard life , he was still able to smile enthusiastically into his son 's lens and show that his experiences had n't got the better of him . |
| 4 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 5 | Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school . |
| 6 | Johnson claimed that his forces numbered 6,000 , but he was thought to command no more than 1,000 men . |
| 7 | Humphrey stresses that his conclusions relate only to the Brazilian auto workers under study at that particular time . |
| 8 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 9 | Dowland was a European figure , lutenist to James I 's brother-in-law , Christian IV of Denmark , from 1598 to 1606 ; he boasted of his European travels , his friendship with Marenzio and Giovanni Croce , and the fact that his compositions had been published in Paris , the Netherlands , and several German cities , for instance in Jean Baptiste Besard 's famous collection of lute solos and songs , Thesaurus harmonicus ( Cologne , 1603 ) . |
| 10 | Marshal Akhromeev admitted that his views differed from Mr Gorbachev 's . |
| 11 | It does n't seem that his views have changed , ’ he adds . |
| 12 | There is also reference to reprimands and complaints addressed by him to his subordinates ; on one occasion we are told that the generals on an unsuccessful campaign justified their failure by explaining that although his piety was noted , he was not feared and this meant that his agents commanded no respect . |
| 13 | Student Irina Dumitrescu said : ‘ Michael is the king of rock , but I feel angry that his agents have chosen to put him in Snagov which represents such bitter memories for Romanians . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 15 | Suddenly she heard the sound of an approaching car on the road running alongside the promenade , and as its headlights shone on them , she tried to pull away , turning her head so that his kisses fell on to the side of her face and down on to her shoulder . |
| 16 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 17 | It is the genius of Shakespeare that his plays offer plenty of fully written parts to a band of players . |
| 18 | He excused himself by saying that his remarks had been made spontaneously . |
| 19 | Soares subsequently claimed that his remarks had been misinterpreted . |
| 20 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 21 | The subsequent shift of focus southwards meant that his descendants became yet more distant and therefore more insignificant-seeming figures to those influential writers whose field of vision was restricted to the Anglo-Norman realm on either side of the Channel . |
| 22 | Case , who did his best to convince his schoolboy admirers that his initials stood for Charles Christopher Columbus . |
| 23 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 24 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 25 | Their press conference at the Balmoral Hotel began with an impromptu showing of a video prepared by the Welsh Institute of Sport which manager Robert Norster said that his charges enjoyed to watch as relaxation ‘ over and above the analytical stuff ! ’ |
| 26 | He paled for an instant , thinking perhaps that his socks had slid down , but they had n't . |
| 27 | Listening to Iago is a double process of decoding : deciphering his utterance in the way that his dupes understand it , and decoding it again to understand how he meant it . |
| 28 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 29 | We all called him ‘ Mol ’ abbreviating his name as students always do ; and throughout the diocese he is known by all his brother priests as simply ‘ Mol ’ ; and now I gather that his parishioners call him Fr Mol . |
| 30 | Squeezing away so that his biceps shifted in his sleeve , he asked ‘ so , Rog , what 's going down the chute ? ’ |