Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ears show that his full attention was focused on the photographer until the moment of exposure , when a noise on the left switched one ear in that direction . |
| 2 | He went to Liverpool before the trip and checked hotel accommodation and restaurants to ensure that his 350 excursionists had the best possible service . |
| 3 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 4 | Observers feared that his temporary replacement by Chief of General Staff Col.-Gen . |
| 5 | His critics say that his main contact with his Chicago district is a fond wave from the aeroplane as he travels from Los Angeles to Washington . |
| 6 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 7 | Leaks indicate that his former master 's heart would be gladdened by many of the proposals on the table : shedding 10,000 jobs ; ending union recognition ; closing regional production centres ; increasing the contribution of independent production companies to 40 per cent ; privatising BBC Education ; leasing TV morning airtime ; and abolishing Radio 5 . |
| 8 | Fans of Yorkshire 's finest , Allan Holdsworth , will be chuffed to bits to learn that his new record , ‘ Wardenclyffe Tower ’ , is positively stuffed with guitar solos . |
| 9 | Many years later , biochemists showed that his discrete model really does occur in the molecular structure of living cells . |
| 10 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 11 | At a time of unprecedented challenge in the political arena , many of Smith 's colleagues worry that his will-reading Morningside manner is hardly designed to energise the faithful , let alone excite the doubtful . |
| 12 | But work in Mitchell 's and other laboratories showed that his basic postulates were sound . |
| 13 | Swiftly expelled , he returned to the comprehensive system , but a sequence of petty crimes meant that his formal learning was completed in a succession of borstals and detention centres . |