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

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1 He is determined to get authoritative results , and demands that his associates be similarly single-minded .
2 Jessamy was immediately horrified by the vivid pictures and memories that his murmured words conjured up inside her head .
3 Amid the smouldering ruins of a cluster of Muslim homes which suffered 24 hours of bombardment by Serbian forces in the surrounding hills , a Yugoslav Army colonel attempted to persuade assembled journalists , militiamen and villagers that his units were not involved .
4 The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods .
5 He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries .
6 So cogent and imaginative were his descriptions and inferences that his name remains well known today even though almost nothing in the same vein has followed from his work .
7 Meanwhile , upstairs , above the sulphurous glow of the conmen 's laboratory , Philip Voss 's splendid Sir Epicure Mammon fantasises about the luxuries , fabulous meals , wealth and women that his alchemist 's gold will bring him .
8 It was a story about Roundheads and Cavaliers that his mother used to read to him when he was a boy .
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