Example sentences of "in his early [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen this rapidity on other occasions also in his earliest letters of friendship , but never before in circumstances where so much depended on the quality of those around him . |
| 2 | In his earliest appearances he is ‘ Richard son of Siward ’ indicating English ancestry and the name of a father or earlier progenitor . |
| 3 | Canute had done that , in his earliest days , when he mutilated the Saxon hostages confided to him . |
| 4 | In his earliest poems from the front , such as ‘ At a Calvary Near the Ancre ’ , he imagines a maimed Christ and his fellow soldiers as equal victims of warmongering ‘ pulpit professionals ’ . |
| 5 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 6 | But these inversions were quite different in purpose and effect from those that Pound had practised indiscriminately in his earliest collections , and thereafter castigated ; these were not poeticisms , but indications that he was addressing a sophisticated urban intelligentsia , that of Great War London , just as propertius had addressed the sophisticates of Augustan Rome . |
| 7 | Rousseau ( 1755 ) , in his early accounts of the state of nature , attempted this heroic move , and he has recently been echoed from the feminist side by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex ( 1971 ) . |
| 8 | Except in his early letters to Helen , his reticence about his passionate courtship is almost complete — a fact that may explain , if not excuse , the coldness with which many of his friends and family received Helen 's slightly idealized accounts of their life together in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 9 | At the end of July , with Responsions successfully behind him as well as a happy celebratory birthday outing for Helen spent with Harry and Janet , Edward was still as hesitant as in his early letters to Hooton : ‘ May I bring a paper in manuscript and talk it over with you ? |
| 10 | The essential point is that sexuality as such disturbed him — even in his early letters to Conrad Aiken we see his sexual impulses towards women engaged in an unequal struggle with his own need for self-possession ( or self-preservation ) and control . |
| 11 | Aldo was in his early teens . |
| 12 | Converted in his early teens ( about 1843–1844 ) , he entered the Ministry in 1855 and exercised an appreciated pastoral ministry in many parts of Ireland . |
| 13 | He was a Marxist in his early teens , but thereafter became increasingly right-wing . |
| 14 | In his early teens he turned to reading poetry , then to writing it — and , though he showed his poems to his sisters , he kept them secret from his mother . |
| 15 | He had made his way in his early teens ‘ colouring prints , screens , fans ’ and ‘ making morbid disease drawings , for hospitals and certain doctors of physic ’ . |
| 16 | His father , however , did have the wit to apprentice his son to Clementi , the composer and piano maker , and so Field , in his early teens , was sent to London to study . |
| 17 | In his early essays on the subject , Shklovsky defines it in a very wide range of terms which , broadly speaking , add up to a view that art refreshes our sense of life and experience . |
| 18 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 19 | In his early drawings it was the delicacy of line that caught my attention ; there is the same exquisite feeling in many of the watercolours that he painted in his later years . |
| 20 | In his early travels to London he met various intellectuals and literary people such as Joseph Addison , Alexander Pope , and Jonathan Swift . |
| 21 | Every health minister gets put into his mouth in his early months an ambitious and laudatory summons to voluntary effort . |
| 22 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 23 | A first leader in The Times on 3 January 1986 , surveying , from thirty years on , the lessons of Eden 's stewardship in his early months in No. 10 , criticized the new Prime Minister 's tendency to kick for touch on handling coloured immigration and curbing wildcat strikes . |
| 24 | DEMOCRATIC leaders will make desperate attempts this week to prevent President Bush from claiming a Congressional majority for conservative economic policies , similar to the one enjoyed by President Reagan in his early years . |
| 25 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 26 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 27 | Green painted those faces of nature of which Wordsworth wrote in his early years , albeit more a fern and burdock man than one of celandine and daffodil . |
| 28 | A strong supporter of the Stewarts in his early years , he was knighted by Charles II , but when the Stewart King , James II and VII was deposed in favour of Prince William of Orange , Dalrymple found no difficulty in throwing his full support behind the new King William . |
| 29 | In his early years , Ceauşescu liked to cock a snook at Brezhnev by making visits to the districts bordering the territories Romania lost to the Soviet Union in 1940 . |
| 30 | In his early years as Archbishop he succeeded in obtaining the appointment of a number of Reformers as bishops . |