Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So besieged was he after his first round that he sought refuge for a while on the practice putting green . |
| 2 | Some attributes of God so express the heart of his divine nature that they are used as titles : |
| 3 | Captain Allan Border , as hard and uncompromising as any professional cricketer could be , was so shaken by the news of the loss of his right-hand man that he refused to take the field for the start of the final day 's play of the fourth Test . |
| 4 | Again , Harley is so convinced of his predicted outcome that he feels compelled to chase VARs away , as well . |
| 5 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 6 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 7 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 8 | In spite of his earlier suggestion that I should talk as I ate , Sir Edmund refused to listen to me until I 'd put away a plate of his favourite devilled kidneys . |
| 9 | But even more commendable was the publication of Sir Alastair 's contrary view and of his welcome demand that we ‘ bring this discussion out of the closet ’ . |
| 10 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 11 | But Harry could tell by the blocked and croaking sound of his own voice that he was not . |
| 12 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 13 | Graham is so conscious of his own image that he took a course in public relations . |
| 14 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 15 | With a conscious effort , she swallowed the small spurt of irritation against his easy presumption that she 'd simply fall into line with whatever he chose to do . |
| 16 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 17 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 18 | Erika , who had never set eyes on Hetta in her life , stoutly agreed , and even Paul , making a dishevelled appearance , said with his new courtliness that he would like to meet her , causing Frau Nordern to raise a sceptical eyebrow and warn him not to be sarcastic at that time of the morning . |
| 19 | Granted his contention that in the long-term or ideal equilibrium , wealth and power are inevitably associated with one another , it is coherent with his general model that he reduces class analysis to elite analysis , but again this is a problem which recurs in later elitists in more potent form . |
| 20 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 21 | When the congress opened on Feb. 19 Harilaos Florakis , appointed president of the central committee on his resignation as general secretary in July 1989 and the party 's leader since 1973 , had raised the reformists ' hopes with his unexpected announcement that he now wanted " to be a simple foot-soldier in the party " . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , God , ’ Ruth breathed with such distress that Fernando tightened his grip around her , folding her so hard into his tense body that she clung to him hotly . |
| 23 | Hope was so dug into his happy daydream that he failed to notice that Crump had stopped to gaze at something : he himself walked several yards on before the absence of his companion impinged on him . |
| 24 | The police officer 's initial response in evidence — he was ‘ satisfied that it was of no evidential value to our case ’ — was unfortunate and regarded by the judge as ‘ striking , ’ notwithstanding his later qualification that it was of no value in any direction . |
| 25 | There was such quiet authority in his deep voice that she nodded , instinctively obeying the command , remaining stiff and unfeeling as she watched him go back inside . |
| 26 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 27 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 28 | There was a minor , uninfluential theme in his posthumous reputation that he had come by abnormally horny knees from long hours in prayer . |
| 29 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 30 | There are many gaps in his legal knowledge that he now has an opportunity to make good , as he never will again . |