Example sentences of "and in his [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 3 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 4 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
| 5 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 6 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |