Example sentences of "of his [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until she was completely out of his sight that she allowed herself to break into a swift trot . |
| 2 | The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions . |
| 3 | He said to one of his chaplains that Ramsey spent too much time theologizing up in York instead of tackling problems practically . |
| 4 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 5 | It may seem to modern eyes a very lop-sided assessment of his position that the primacy , together with the lands and other rights of Canterbury , should occupy so prominent place in his thoughts . |
| 6 | If he were honest with himself , however , he would admit that he did not miss them ; it was the comfort of his home that he missed . |
| 7 | And it is in the privacy of his home that he demonstrates the ultimate love for his partner . |
| 8 | Members of the public protection committee take due note of the contents of Her Majesty 's Inspector 's current report , but in particular we take note of his concerns that the standard of fire cover in an area to the South West of the city is inadequate . |
| 9 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 10 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 11 | It was only by issuing rather unconvincing threats of his disapproval that Peggy could keep the girl in line . |
| 12 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 13 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 14 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 15 | The ambition was to surround the youth with ‘ continued influence for good ’ at a critical time of his life : ‘ We try to make him feel that there is no part of his life that is beyond the range of God 's love , and that everything should be done in God 's sight . ’ |
| 16 | Ceauşescu told Newsweek in the autumn of his life that the cult was not his doing . |
| 17 | Her father had complained to the Water Board every year for the last fifteen of his life that their damned backwashing was washing away his river bank . |
| 18 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |
| 19 | For the time being , however , he did not discard his academic first-class honours and it remains one of the oddities of his life that the first published work of the future Nazi propagandist was a scholarly contribution to the Revue of English Studies in 1928 : ‘ A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [ a ] in the English of Today . ’ |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 22 | And Minton , like Hopkin , traduced by myth , may likewise have begun to feel by the end of his life that this was the only thing in him , too , that remained inviolate . |
| 23 | There were parts of his life that he did n't want the world to see , Alison least of all . |
| 24 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 25 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 26 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 27 | Charlie was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored in a corner of his life that he did n't really have to reveal if he did n't choose to do so . |
| 28 | Will the Minister give a guarantee in the last few days of his Government that none of those elderly people will have their home repossessed ? |
| 29 | TORY MP Harry Greenway spoke last night of his relief that bribery charges against him have been dropped . |
| 30 | When he was honest with himself , he had to confess that he had tried to draw brackets around that part of his existence that was Sylvie . |