Example sentences of "he [verb] that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What does he think that his minimum wage would do to it ? |
| 4 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 5 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 6 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 7 | When he was finally slain in battle , he asked that his severed head be buried facing the ocean so that no foreign armies could set foot in Ireland without him knowing it . |
| 8 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 9 | He found that his ready command of French , Italian , German , Turkish , Arabic , Greek , and Albanian , and his personal friendship with many of the key figures in the area , made his presence invaluable to the commander-in-chief , although eyebrows were sometimes raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance . |
| 10 | As time went on he found that his own tastes , especially his interest in music , aligned him more with Vaughan than Minton . |
| 11 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 12 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 13 | He promised that his new government would issue an economic statement early in 1992 . |
| 14 | More specifically , he puts the young reader in touch with the French impressionists in his rich illustrations for Charlotte Zolotow 's Mr Rabbit and the lovely present ( although , strangely , he says that his main influence here was the American naturalistic painter , Winslow Homer ) , and with the pop art of cinema and food packaging in In the night kitchen . |
| 15 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 16 | To the end of his days , he believed that his ten shillings a week pension kept him , but of course it was my father who kept the two homes going . |
| 17 | He confirms that his next director 's job will be a project starring Kevin Costner . |
| 18 | He claimed that his governing body , the UK Central Council for Nurses and Midwives , recommended that at least two nurses gave out the drugs to patients . |
| 19 | He claimed that his Socialist opponents had used corruption allegations to hound him from office , and that fellow right-wing politicians in Paris had abandoned him ( many of Médecin 's close political friends had been alienated by his decision in 1989 to leave the Gaullist Rally for the Republic and join the far right National Centre of Independents and Peasants ) . |
| 20 | This occurs when he discovers that his beloved Caesar has been murdered . |
| 21 | When asked to explain his responses at the end of the study , he replied that his chosen shapes ‘ looked closer and brighter ’ , but did not mention the symmetry which is so striking to a normal observer . |
| 22 | He declared that his new government would not " create another condition that could be used as a pretext to overthrow it " . |
| 23 | He declared that his large diamond rings were his investment ; they probably were as after his ‘ crash ’ some disappeared but he still maintained his two houses . |
| 24 | He fears that his libidinal impulses and those of other people can not control the aggressive impulses sufficiently to prevent utter chaos and destruction . |
| 25 | Prudent and orderly , uncompromising in his views on life and art , and instinctively reserved in a postwar world which contradicted them extensively , Frampton was a man of humour , courtesy , and charm , who unbent when he sensed that his deep feeling for beauty , order , and sound technique was shared . |
| 26 | Initially , the Italian government declined to become involved , but Mussolini relented when he heard that his principal rivals in the Mediterranean , the French , were going to aid the Republic . |
| 27 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 28 | Afterwards he decided that his intense preoccupation with politics and the Liberal Party had not represented his true conviction . |
| 29 | ‘ He thought that his tall uncles in the dark clothes were princes of an élite brotherhood . |
| 30 | Later he thought that his early affection for Fly cathedral had something to do with his interest in churches and their architecture . |