Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |
| 2 | For the first time he has revealed that his controversial substitution in the European Championship finals came after a series of confrontations . |
| 3 | Although there 's been a lot of interest in the Bath exhibition , Roles has found that his radical approach to the medium has made it hard to get his work established in this country . |
| 4 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 5 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 6 | — DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 7 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 8 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 9 | If he did , he was bound to conclude that his vital interests were at stake . |
| 10 | But I 'm bound to say that his recent experience at Barnes may be having some effect . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Not to me , ’ Robyn murmured , hardly daring to hope that his lighter mood might have something to do with the fact that he really did like her work . |
| 12 | The draft was amended to read that his strong leadership ‘ may be ’ rather than ‘ is ’ counter-productive . |
| 13 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 14 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 15 | By the simple expedient of giving Charles control of the military elements of his kingdom , Pepin may have ensured that his elder son would retain greater control . |
| 16 | I do n't think he will ever do another Love Story , but having accepted that his gutsy sagas are OK . |
| 17 | Kirk came into the project not just as actor , having ensured that his own production company , Bryna , would co-produce with director Richard Quine 's own production company . |
| 18 | How could she ever have thought that his negligent self-involvement would be enough for her ? |
| 19 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 20 | Having stated that his earlier life was misdirected , and his poetry the product of ‘ fond illusion ’ , Wordsworth concludes with a decision |
| 21 | In her written opinion , dated 27 July 1990 , Ross described Aviv 's testimony as ‘ not credible ’ , which most of the media took to mean that his leaked report was ‘ not credible ’ . |
| 22 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
| 23 | But he did indicate that his eight-year relationship with Coppell had become strained by Palace 's nose-diving fortunes . |
| 24 | But he did divulge that his own household fridge is not one of those on the Which recommended list . |
| 25 | There was no intention to be insulting — quite the reverse — but it might readily be inferred that the defendant must have realised and did realise that his homosexual overtures might not be welcomed by the person at whom he was directing them . |
| 26 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 27 | But he soon wins you over , and it is not long before you start feeling that his casual manner conveys Higgins 's narcissism to a well-pronounced T. |
| 28 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |