Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 2 | If the process is to be continued , I hope that his Prime Minister will ensure that he is there to continue it . |
| 3 | But I suspect that his profound restlessness needs less metaphyical weight to achieve its fullest expression . |
| 4 | I know that his many friends and family , as well as those who have only recently met him , think that this must be one of those marriages that are made in heaven , and will want to join me in wishing Steven and Annabelle a long and happy married life together . |
| 5 | I understand that his preliminary conclusion is that independence does exist in fact , but that the perception of independence is an issue . |
| 6 | He was speaking very casually , but I saw that his right hand , like mine , was shaking . |
| 7 | Then I saw that his bloodless lips were pulled back from his huge white teeth … |
| 8 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 9 | Mr Kravchuk has clearly been rankled by polls which show that his prime minister is twice as popular as he is . |
| 10 | In fact no such agonising choice confronted Charles 's men : Lothar himself recognised that his own position was dangerously exposed ; and winter was close . |
| 11 | ( In addition to Lully , Jacques drew on Clerambault , Bernier , Campra and Corelli for musical examples , which shows that his own music library was his source of reference . ) |
| 12 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 13 | With his supplies he received news of Conflans ’ defeat at Quiberon Bay , which meant that his small-scale diversion had now become the main , indeed only , invasion , but he bravely pressed on to Ireland and , by now having lost another ship , finally landed a force variously put at from 600 to 1000 men at Carrickfergus , on the north side of Belfast Lough , on Friday 21 February 1760 . |
| 14 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 15 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 16 | On the other hand , I could find nothing to suggest that his general health was materially affected . |
| 17 | Mr Hallam was seen by a surgeon who found that his lower jaw was broken and he had damaged teeth . |
| 18 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 19 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 20 | Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it . |
| 21 | As he leaned forward she noticed that his lower eyelids , which were loose and wrinkled , fell free of his eyeballs , like loose pockets . |
| 22 | Ion Iliescu in particular became the focal point of demonstrators who claimed that his communist past disqualified him from office and that nothing short of a total purge of communists from all positions of responsibility would cleanse society of the effects of 40 years of dictatorship . |
| 23 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 24 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 25 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 26 | During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet . |
| 27 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 28 | He then commanded the eunuchs to light a fire under the cauldron , and did not retire until they gave him to understand that his wretched victim was no more . |
| 29 | What does he think that his minimum wage would do to it ? |
| 30 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |