Example sentences of "[that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 2 | It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read . |
| 3 | I have pointed out to him that his picture echoes the medieval and Renaissance formula for St John on Patmos writing the Book of Revelation and for the evangelists writing the Gospels , itself derived from Greco-Roman author portraits . |
| 4 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 5 | It is n't lost on him that his reading matter — popular science , pornography — is ‘ junk ’ . |
| 6 | The analyst had previously referred to their sessions as a ‘ voyage of inner discovery ’ : Fraser thinks that his tape-recordings make possible a ‘ voyage into the social past ’ . |
| 7 | Nail on the Banister by R. Stornaway , alias R. Scott , is an eloquent Scots joke of the Thirties , and it allows one to say that Glasser 's banister was a bed of nails , but that his slides may have been less painful than Fraser 's . |
| 8 | She had known that his love for her would remain , and ‘ for her to have acted on that knowledge ’ in resorting to the deception ‘ made her deed unforgivable ’ . |
| 9 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 10 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , madam , ’ he said at last , ‘ I am granting that his conducting of himself is not what might be expected . |
| 12 | Henry ran his hands through his hair in a gesture of excitement that his sister would have recognized well . |
| 13 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 14 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 15 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 16 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 17 | That this will require some radical reflexivity on the part of the insider is obvious , for it is almost inevitable that his revelations will not only create some discomfort for himself , but will almost certainly be unwelcome . |
| 18 | Obviously concerned that his analysis of the negative influence of discipline on the efficiency of systems of communication might offend or incite displeasure , he avoided confrontation ; but he need not have worried . |
| 19 | Anthropology has been prominent in showing how the marginal in any society tends to pose problems for state institutions and governments ; and the insider must anticipate that his conclusions might well be |
| 20 | The deflection is intended to turn his closed side towards you , so that his immediate counter is restricted to a back fist or suchlike . |
| 21 | Do not deflect the opponent so that his open side faces you or you may well find yourself facing a powerful reverse punch fuelled by the fall forward . |
| 22 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 23 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 24 | He found that his feet had cramped in a clench of anguish . |
| 25 | He once said that his ambition was to make of it ‘ the Cathedral Synagogue of Canada , ’ and that is exactly what happened . |
| 26 | ( Others have said that his death was due to his homosexuality . |
| 27 | He has been so occupied since before his first book was published ; in season and out of season , through thick and thin , and always with the certitude that his views , his perceptions , would prevail : a catalyst and an agitator of the first order . |
| 28 | For someone whose life has been lived in search of the word , who perceived that ‘ a scar is what happens when the word is made flesh , ’ who owned that his education began on hearing of the Holocaust , it is not a convincing comment . |
| 29 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 30 | ‘ He thought that his tall uncles in the dark clothes were princes of an élite brotherhood . |