Example sentences of "[verb] in his [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 2 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 3 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 4 | Durance was adopting the view that if the drugs were found in his former studio his name would be dragged into a scandal . |
| 5 | And what was the greater plan that Chant hoped in his final hours he was a part of ? |
| 6 | Goodenache watched them , not knowing in his befuddled state what to do . |
| 7 | Whilst doing this Marvell can live in his own world which has no connection with anything external or real at all . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 9 | Though reserved in his interpersonal relationships he nevertheless displays good interpersonal skills . |
| 10 | Kim Il Sung was re-elected President of the Republic on May 24 and restated in his inaugural speech his commitment to socialism despite the " temporary setbacks " which had occurred elsewhere in the world [ ibid . ] . |
| 11 | With church bells ringing in his tired head he looked down and saw , 300 feet below , the woman in the red petticoat . |
| 12 | Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed . |