Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
2 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
3 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
4 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
5 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
6 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
7 | To Dennis 's in the sense that he thought he could act as team-boss without regard for Niki ; to Niki 's in that he thought his personal world outweighed Dennis 's and the team 's . |
8 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
9 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
10 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
11 | It was then that he felt his true strength as an eagle coming at last . |
12 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
13 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
14 | But he denied claims that he harassed his 25-year-old secretary . |
15 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |
16 | It seems likely that he owed his remarkable escape to the fact that his house lay right on the fringe of the nuee ardente , in the extreme south-east of the town , so that he escaped its worst effects . |
17 | It was on an aid pitch that he took his only fall , ripping two pegs before the last aid point held him . |
18 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
19 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
20 | Conscious that Marie-Claire was listening to every word , Melissa hesitated for a moment before saying , ‘ It is believed that he took his own life . ’ |
21 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
22 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
23 | Some know not that each Person in the Trinity is God ; nor that Christ is God and man ; nor that he took his human nature with him into heaven ; nor many the like necessary principles of our faith . |
24 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
25 | It was reported that , while incarcerated at Reading 's morbid gaol , Woolridge once again affirmed his guilt , and formally stated that he accepted his terminal punishment as the logical outcome . |
26 | This so angered Henry II that he ordered his other sons to curb Richard 's pride . |
27 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
28 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
29 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
30 | He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand . |