Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bingham is keeping his fingers crossed that Gray 's withdrawal is the only one . |
| 2 | The Reds ' third-choice keeper , who made a successful return to senior action , is keeping his fingers crossed that Graeme Souness was impressed enough to select him against Middlesbrough this Saturday . |
| 3 | And Kristian has his fingers crossed that Thames Television 's £1 million children 's series The Tomorrow People will be a hit . |
| 4 | KEVIN BROCK is keeping his fingers crossed that Newcastle 's reserve match at Aston Villa tonight is n't a victim of the weather , writes John Wardle . |
| 5 | The defence minister , Kaspar Villiger , and his supporters reply that Switzerland needs something to replace its now 30-year-old Hawker Hunters . |
| 6 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief Scott McNealy apparently told his stockholders meeting that Solaris would be ported to the PowerPC if IBM , Apple and Motorola come up with the volume . |
| 8 | Marlborough 's campaigns have commanded the admiration of military analysts ; his successes showed that Britain could conduct a war on land , and made it clear that the balance of power would be maintained and Louis XIV would not be able to establish France as the dominant power in western Europe in the way that had seemed probable in the 1680s . |
| 9 | For his part , Branson was within his rights to insist that Wilson abide by the contract she had signed , but he agreed to renegotiate . |
| 10 | Even his friends concede that Pillsbury can be difficult , being something of a diva , hot-tempered and imperious . |
| 11 | Mr Siddique said his members understood that Mr Rushdie was protected under British law , but said : ‘ I would welcome the opportunity to kill him myself if he was in an Islamic country . ’ |
| 12 | Benjamin Titford , by contrast , must have trusted his children to see that Elizabeth was fairly dealt with — and his trust appears to have been justified . |
| 13 | Though his detractors claimed that Hadrian 's beard was grown to hide blemishes on his skin , it more likely reflects the emperor 's profound commitment to Greek culture . |
| 14 | Most of his colleagues feel that Mr Lamont 's handling of Treasury policy has been sound . |