Example sentences of "[pron] in his [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy is moving rapidly in that direction , in pursuit of something that is ‘ enjoyable ’ at the same time as being ‘ not escapist ’ , that magic formula which Eco believes to have been the discovery of the American postmodernists ( with Barth as their prophet ) and to which in his own best-seller he aspired ( Eco 1985 : 65 — 72 ) . |
| 2 | Something in his private life we know nothing about . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The Bishop did n't specify in detail what he wanted to know , but I imagine he fears that Father Marr was killed because of something in his unknown past which may not be entirely creditable to the church . |
| 4 | ( 15 November 1780 ) Meanwhile , Leopold continued to convey Varesco 's alterations to the text , so that his son could enter them in his own copy which he was using while writing the music . |
| 5 | Lawrence remained too preoccupied with what in his adjusted mind he projected , disavowed , or consciously repudiated ; homosexuality especially remained too fascinating for either his strenuous vision of psychic adjustment or his banal view of sexual difference as unity in opposition to remain unharassed by it . |