Example sentences of "that his [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one could have told from Mr. Turner 's face that his ice-cold nerve had just saved twenty thousand lives . |
| 2 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 3 | It was with a succession of such hints that Shah Jehan let it be known that his eldest son bathed in an ever-brighter glow of Imperial approval . |
| 4 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 5 | I 'll admit I am a little nervous , ’ she added meekly , while becoming conscious that his firm grip seemed to send tingles up her arm . |
| 6 | First is the fact that his capitalist society seemed to consist of mechanisms and relationships with universal effects throughout capitalism . |
| 7 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 8 | His personal habits are such that his chief following consists of unpaid tradesmen … . |
| 9 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |
| 10 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 11 | The mystic claims that the reality which monotheists call ‘ God ’ is essentially unknowable , but these revealed religions claim that he has spoken very clearly to men and that his divine Word has been expressed and can be experienced in very tangible ways . |
| 12 | Ion Iliescu in particular became the focal point of demonstrators who claimed that his communist past disqualified him from office and that nothing short of a total purge of communists from all positions of responsibility would cleanse society of the effects of 40 years of dictatorship . |
| 13 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 14 | It seemed that his final revelation had soothed him , prepared him for death . |
| 15 | Dr Neil was so shocked — both by Blaine 's manner and the cavalier fashion in which he spoke to them both , that his normal composure left him , and he could think of no more to say than , ‘ You know Miss McAllister ? ’ and his voice was incredulous , so incredulous that Havvie 's eyebrows shot up in gleeful , unholy delight at the prospect of yet another opportunity to humiliate the girl who had jilted him . |
| 16 | He explained the circumstances , that his close friend had cancer and was very ill and needing Babur 's support . |
| 17 | This is the nearest we get to an announcement that his long hibernation has transformed him . |
| 18 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it . |
| 19 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 20 | Thus Castro was demonstrating not only that he was serious in his commitment to social reform but also , more importantly — in terms of how Soviet analysts assess the viability of a regime — that his revolutionary government had the power to implement the measures that it chose . |
| 21 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 22 | Mungo hoped that his instant panic did n't show on his features . |
| 23 | It has also meant visiting customers worldwide , but he admits that his greatest pleasure came from meeting the company 's own employees around the globe . |
| 24 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 25 | With his supplies he received news of Conflans ’ defeat at Quiberon Bay , which meant that his small-scale diversion had now become the main , indeed only , invasion , but he bravely pressed on to Ireland and , by now having lost another ship , finally landed a force variously put at from 600 to 1000 men at Carrickfergus , on the north side of Belfast Lough , on Friday 21 February 1760 . |
| 26 | As a son of the poet 's brother Gilbert , he was born at Mossgiel Farm Mauchline during the year that his famous uncle died . |
| 27 | ‘ Er — he 's out playing golf , ’ her mother replied , and , while Leith was beginning to wonder how long it would be before her father discovered that his joint savings account with his wife had a dent in it , her mother was swiftly changing the subject . |
| 28 | The governor of the central bank , a friend of parliament , says brazenly that his all-important promise to rein in credit was a trick to show that Mr Yeltsin 's austerity measures were impossible . |
| 29 | At this time , for a short while , he was purged , he was himself as his best self should be , he was all that his great promise had held out — untainted , unbrutalised — like the Floating Island on Derwent Water , submerged for years on end , only to rise up intact now and then . |
| 30 | Sliding their arms around each other they clung together , and it did n't matter that he was bloated , nor that his tired sweat made his clothes stick clammily to his bulges . |