Example sentences of "a [noun] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not entirely a coincidence that his question was due to be answered today and the representations from the two trade unions arrived in the Department yesterday . |
| 3 | The Coroner recorded a verdict that his death was misadventure . |
| 4 | Reg Seekings , who was with Paddy Mayne , was also dragged across the desert at such a speed that his arms and face were skinned . |
| 5 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 6 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 7 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 8 | He was a man who was isolated in his world , to such a degree that his immediate environment probably hardly mattered to him . |
| 9 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 10 | A YOUTH who was told by a judge that his sex attack on a nine-year-old girl was ‘ like a breath of fresh air ’ walked free yesterday . |
| 11 | It was a shame that his patience ran out just as we were getting a team together . |
| 12 | Now with the recent arrival of detachments from his old Group on Malta , he arrived with a directive that his main task was to organise the offensive against the Axis supply shipping plying between Europe and Africa . |
| 13 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 14 | It is a reminder that his achievements , and those of others , were partly based on the threat of large-scale violence . |
| 15 | Donning a yarmulke , he promised a Jewish group that ‘ we 'll keep a glatt [ strict ] kosher kitchen at the White House , ’ a pledge that his aides were at first unsure whether to treat as a jest or for real . |
| 16 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 17 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 18 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 19 | Oddly , if the P M risks giving him one in the next reshuffle , it might be a sign that his own confidence is returning . |
| 20 | It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront . |
| 21 | If B's claim , which , in substance , would be a claim that his right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 had been violated , were to be ventilated before the Commission , it would have to be satisfied that domestic remedies had been exhausted . |
| 22 | Both in the exclusion of the I-Thou relationship and in the critical method , an uneasy union of formalist grammatical analysis , highly idiosyncratic diagrams , and a belief that his approach is ‘ scientific , or ‘ objective ’ when it rests on a whole series of unargued critical assumptions , this remains a learned but peripheral book . |
| 23 | He has a feeling that his womenfolk are up to something . |
| 24 | I had a feeling that his logic would not bear close scrutiny but was too numb to argue with the ancient greenkeeper . |
| 25 | But we are thrown a hint that his triumph is hardly long-lived , for when he stands , alone , high above the still forms of the dead below , it is not a look of satisfaction that he throws us , but one of puzzlement at his own work . |
| 26 | One of the most difficult tasks of a teacher is to tell a father that his son ca n't cope with the new maths . |
| 27 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
| 28 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 29 | In November 1990 each of the applicants expressed a preference that his daughter should be educated at the school . |
| 30 | For the rest of the round , my father took such a pasting that his father , who was in his corner , threw the towel in . |