Example sentences of "his [noun sg] that [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he probably could n't believe his luck that he was going out with you that night . |
| 2 | Shifty-eyes had probably made up his mind that we were going to shoot him ! |
| 3 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 4 | His face seemed to show nothing except benevolent interest , but Julia could tell from the way that he was carrying his head and a certain tension in his body that they were approaching a crisis point . |
| 5 | Maria was momentarily gripped by an odd , angry despair in response to his denial that he was having an affair with Cavell . |
| 6 | And Dyson knew from the depth of humility and reverence in his inflection that he was getting a larger fee than even Lord Boddy . |
| 7 | ’ When still she made no move , he chuckled and made as if to put the document away again , pausing when he saw out of the corner of his eye that she was returning to the desk , albeit hesitantly . |
| 8 | They had to tell the dairyman and his wife that they were planning to marry . |
| 9 | He heard that Daniels had set fire to his car after telling his wife that he was going to ‘ lose ’ it and tell police it had been stolen . |
| 10 | We had embarked two such affairs in the last year ; the most memorable being an English lawyer who had arrived with his French mistress , but only after telling his wife that he was attending a legal conference in Brussels and , to preserve the lie , he had been forced to hide every inch of his pallid skin in case a sun-tan betrayed him . |
| 11 | Soon after , he realized with a chill in his groin that something was opening the clasps of his suit . |
| 12 | I mean , you know , ho how does that relate to his pattern that he 's talking about ? |
| 13 | Swift said of his Examiner that he was writing " to the Vulgar , more than the Learned " , whilst Leslie saw his Rehearsal as intended for the " common people " who had been poisoned by the pernicious principles of the Whigs . |
| 14 | But like , wi with the door Dave 's mum 's sister was rubbing it in to try and say to his nan that we were kicking her out and so she got a bit funny over it ! |
| 15 | ‘ No , it ent , ’ and Willie knew by the certainty in his voice that he was telling the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't think … there could have been something … dark in his past that he was trying to hide , do you ? ’ |
| 17 | He gave his word that he was going to land but he did n't " . |
| 18 | When Henry Fielding introduces the word ‘ pages ’ into his stage coach metaphor ( 'As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages ' ) he reminds his audience that they are reading a book . |
| 19 | One stratagem a fiction writer can employ to persuade his audience that he is writing fact is to append yards of references . |
| 20 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 21 | Equally fanciful is his assertion that we are destroying living standards . |
| 22 | The man is very good at making widgets , he makes widgets , but he does n't tell his bank that he 's doing well . |
| 23 | In November 1989 , Coleman reluctantly agreed to resign his commission with the Boy Scouts of America , giving as his reason that he was returning to journalism with a job in Germany . |
| 24 | May I , in the interest of domestic bliss , remind us of an old joke : a man tells his doctor that he is giving up drinking , smoking and sex and asks if he will live longer . |
| 25 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 26 | And found to his annoyance that he was grinding his teeth . |
| 27 | First a man has become so desperate to sell his house that he 's offering cash help with the mortgage . |
| 28 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
| 29 | In a letter to Zborowski dated 27 February , he told his dealer that he was going to work at No. 13 Rue de France . |
| 30 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |