Example sentences of "in his [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in his tone put her on her guard . |
| 2 | Something pleading in his voice reached me through whatever senseless barricade of childish rage I 'd thrown up , and I relaxed a bit , and managed to smile and say I was sorry to have been so silly . |
| 3 | This belief not only increases the beneficial effects of the specific therapy but also helps him to become more confident in general as well as in his ability to change anything about himself or his life that he does not like . |
| 4 | Pearce also met with a considerable degree of resistance from within British Aerospace in his efforts to steer it through privatisation . |
| 5 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 6 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 7 | Every pilot in his squadron knew it by heart . |
| 8 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 9 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 10 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 11 | For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses . |
| 12 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 13 | Jake leaned forward in his seat to fix her with a look . |
| 14 | He was quite prepared to crush her in his desire to force her into seeing what she did not wish to see . |
| 15 | Documents found in his car linked him to La Cutufa . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know this face ? ’ said Isambard , turning Harry about in his hands to display him to them all , and taking him by the chin to jerk up his face to the light when he turned it haughtily aside . |
| 17 | In other words , they demand that he give a lead ; meanwhile , however , countless obstacles are placed in his path to prevent him from actually exercising leadership . |
| 18 | Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat . |
| 19 | Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters . |
| 20 | He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain . |
| 21 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 22 | The ruthless cynicism in his eyes smote her like a physical blow . |
| 23 | The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too . |
| 24 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 25 | There was nothing in his house to remind him of Ecalpemos . |