Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to sources that could n't be revealed , the Paradise Corporation had pretended that Sir Charles Dobson was alive for ten days after his death so that the leadership of the company could be handed over without shaking public confidence . |
| 2 | Maybe Maria Luisa was such a deep part of his life now that there was no hope for their future . |
| 3 | So , basically , what they 're saying there 's all these things that they 'll provide at each stage of his journey so that if care is n't right he knows what channels to go through to complain . |
| 4 | There was a bell at the end , which was rung by the ticket-collector or guard to warn the women of his approach so that they could cover themselves appropriately . |
| 5 | Jess kicked out , catching the handle of his tankard so that a puddle of porter slopped on to the counter . |
| 6 | With the same end in view , no doubt , he called her ‘ Molly Coddle ’ — a name he had never thought to use when she was a child — and he insisted on changing the sex of his grandchildren so that Henrietta became Henry or Hal , Samantha was naturally Sam , and the three-year-old Jacqueline ‘ Jack the Lad ’ . |
| 7 | And , warm with dancing , he pulled off his jewelled hat , so that the brown hair fell free , and opened the close-pearled band of his doublet so that his throat might be bared to the air . |
| 8 | She felt the command of his hands as they moved apart her pliant thighs , the move of his body so that now he was almost there , almost hers . |
| 9 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 10 | The wait in the ironmonger 's and the noises of cars and motor bikes turning and revving in the street worsened the pressure at the back of his neck so that as he finally got the machine into his van and thought of the relief of reaching home and doing the mowing , black tadpoles shot across his vision , zigzagging through all dimensions . |
| 11 | Now he did smile , and it changed him completely , lifting the lines of his face so that he appeared hardly older than herself , though she knew from Miss Beard that he was almost thirty . |
| 12 | You can also make an appointment with the librarian or one of his staff so that the classification system can be explained to you together with any skills involved in scanning the microfiche for details of authors , articles and sources . |
| 13 | The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face . |
| 14 | ‘ O my Lord , ’ he murmured inside his mind as the young chaplain unrolled more and more miracles and spiritual honours of St Kentigern , ‘ make me free of evil thoughts , evil deeds , this wicked life … ’ and the murmurings of his internal prayers gradually absorbed more of his attention so that when Nicholson eventually stopped , he found his listener remote , unaware , it seemed , that the history was over . |
| 15 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 16 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 17 | But no matter whether the ballet lasts one , two or three acts the choreographer must be fully in control of his material so that every detail of the characterisation of the whole cast is appropriate to the general atmosphere and environment within which the plot unfolds . |
| 18 | Nicholson remained slightly ahead of his group so that they could never quite see the expression of disdain of his face . |
| 19 | In fact , it is a measure of his poverty both that he is unaware of it and that he can define himself only in negative terms . |
| 20 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 21 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 22 | I I 've I 've been trying to see the 's about it and about getting copies of some of his poems so that people could see them you know . |
| 23 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 24 | Magee leant forward and touched the man 's shoulder , simultaneously pushing the knife gently up beneath his chin so that the point was just touching flesh . |
| 25 | Fergus , used to the occasional cigar with his brandy now that he 'd given up his pipe , pronounced the smoke quite cool , and objected more to the sweet taste of the Old Holborn than to the scent of resin . |
| 26 | So if a husband is considering taking out a PP , he should certainly discuss the terms with his wife so that they both understand what is being given up . |
| 27 | When he finally moved back to lie beside her , he pulled her into his arms so that her head came to rest on his chest . |
| 28 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 29 | He sat down next to her and the sofa dipped under his weight so that it was an effort to keep her body erect . |
| 30 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |