Example sentences of "[that] his [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparently more hardline stance of the SOC was reinforced by Hun Sen , when in a speech on Nov. 24 he indicated that his government rejected the Security Council 's peace plan and " will not agree to what is decided in Paris " . |
| 2 | He laughed so much that his laughter became the centre of attraction in the theatre . |
| 3 | The listeners turned to each other , each anxious to assure himself that his neighbour appreciated the speaker 's remarks and the wisdom of his approach . |
| 4 | Although Romania is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , Mr Ceausescu boasted earlier this year that his country had the capacity to produce nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor . |
| 6 | And Becker , who lost to Stich in the Wimbledon final two years ago , quickly acknowledged that his compatriot deserved the triumph . |
| 7 | Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases . |
| 8 | In April 1945 Attlee prepared a memorandum for the Cabinet to the effect that his committee favoured the retention of compulsory military service after the war . |
| 9 | He also expressed the view that his visit signalled the imminent end of hostilities with North Korea , a long-term ally of the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | But Berkeley 's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors , and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense , were not accepted . |
| 11 | ‘ Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that … ’ it would be interesting to compare the time spent by Flaubert making sure that his heroine had the rare and difficult eyes of a tragic adulteress with the time spent by Dr Starkie in carelessly selling him short . |
| 12 | ‘ It would greatly help the case for the chapter if he were to indicate now that his party supported the Maastricht Treaty . ’ |
| 13 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 14 | writes from : AS A barmaid , I was told by a customer — a Mr Brewster — that his ancestor founded the annual Brewster Sessions when all pub licences are up for renewal . |
| 15 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |
| 16 | But when he handed her a cup of coffee and sat down opposite she saw that his face held the cool , ascetic look of a lawyer rather than the heated sensuality of a lover . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) easily won the prize for the longest words in the debate , but that does not mean that his speech had the best content . |
| 18 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 19 | He may have thought that his father spoke the truth in October 1922 , ‘ We are all British , not American citizens . ’ |
| 20 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 21 | Brook added that his analysis confirmed the importance of the proposal to submit twice-yearly forecasts to the Cabinet on the trend of future spending . |
| 22 | A Liverpool Police Constable stated that his beat included the Communist Party offices in Hope Street . |
| 23 | I can tell him how the Store nomes thought that his grandfather created the world . |
| 24 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 25 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 26 | John Calambokidis , who runs the non-profit marine-mammal organisation Cascadia Research , based in nearby Olympia , says that 1991 was the year that his team saw the most whales come in to Puget Sound , and stay the longest . |
| 27 | Park specifically recommended that his team followed the methods pioneered by the anthropologists : |
| 28 | ‘ Still , we were only just beaten here , ’ said Hastings , bitterly upset that his team had the match stolen from them when Fox landed his 47-yard penalty with only 35 seconds of normal time left . |
| 29 | The accession of the new king , William IV , in June 1830 brought some slight relief , mainly because it was widely believed that His Majesty favoured the destruction of machinery and the payment of 2 shillings a day to men of the labouring classes . |