Example sentences of "that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He thought that his tall uncles in the dark clothes were princes of an élite brotherhood . |
2 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
3 | The other members of staff knew that his apparent simpleness was due to a sad childhood ; he had been brutally beaten by his father and this had resulted in his withdrawing into himself . |
4 | No one could have told from Mr. Turner 's face that his ice-cold nerve had just saved twenty thousand lives . |
5 | It is true that his average support score during his presidency was 76 per cent ( Johnson 's was 83 per cent , and no figures are available for Roosevelt ) , but such scores are of only limited value as a measure of a president 's relationship with the legislature . |
6 | Claydon has made no secret of the fact that his immediate goal is to win enough to secure a Tour Card for 1990 without having to go to the Qualifying School at La Manga . |
7 | Valverde told the commission that his immediate superior at that time , the then Minister of Transport and Communications José Barrionuevo , had had full knowledge of the details of the land purchases . |
8 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
9 | He was a man who was isolated in his world , to such a degree that his immediate environment probably hardly mattered to him . |
10 | The deflection is intended to turn his closed side towards you , so that his immediate counter is restricted to a back fist or suchlike . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The explosions followed an announcement by Col. Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a fugitive since leading a 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-12 ] , that his rebel forces would resume " tactical operations " which had been suspended since the Cabanatuan City earthquake in July . |
13 | Mr Kravchuk has clearly been rankled by polls which show that his prime minister is twice as popular as he is . |
14 | If the process is to be continued , I hope that his Prime Minister will ensure that he is there to continue it . |
15 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
16 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
17 | How could she ever have thought that his negligent self-involvement would be enough for her ? |
18 | Ironically , he was shot for doing his job well , so well that his acute observation almost certainly saved lives . |
19 | Thus an ‘ owl ’ will often pursue his hobbies or interests late into the night so that his preferred life-style will accentuate the natural tendency of his clock . |
20 | He conceded that his preferred solution of involving the Soviet Union in a guarantee was impracticable for the time being but it remained the most satisfactory long-term solution . |
21 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |
24 | At this she turned on Karelius a look of such desperate gratitude that his selfish irritation was quite vanquished . |
25 | So keen is he on that approach that his six-year-old daughter Rosie studies with a female gospel singer . |
26 | The French writer Theophile Gautier , for example , observed that his female cat would always listen attentively to the singers that he accompanied on the piano . |
27 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
28 | The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 . |
29 | Act 4 Scene 1 Line 139 he also says , ‘ Damned those that trust them ’ which perhaps shows the decline that his mental state is in as he himself trusts them . |
30 | Late one night I whispered to him that I was worried that the Yanks were taxing him too hard , that his lucid arguments and eloquence were being weakened by constant niggling at everything he said . |