Example sentences of "[that] in his [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 2 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 3 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 4 | Roberts suggests that in his own way he 's as obsessed as the people he 's observing . |
| 5 | She realised that in his own way he was being considerate , for by refusing to talk she was laying herself open to torture . |
| 6 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
| 7 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 8 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 9 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 10 | And finally , brethren , let us ask the Almighty to look down upon us and our endeavours with His special favour , beseeching Him that He may send a blessing upon our daily tasks , and that in His infinite wisdom He may smite our enemies , and destroy those who would destroy us . |
| 11 | The new York Times declared that in his White Revolution he had " aligned himself directly with the workers and peasant against conservatives and traditionalists " . |