Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 2 | His rebellious nature manifested itself in his collecting speciality , the Cubist masterpieces of Picasso , Léger , Braque and Gris . |
| 3 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 5 | Possessed by the movie camera with which his sadistic father tortured him in childhood ‘ Tome ’ skewers his girlfriend with a stiletto tripod leg while he films the grim business . |
| 6 | Demidenko ( Hyperion ) is also highly individual , not to say idiosyncratic , even if his penchant for the mildly unexpected will not be to everyone 's taste , and Katin 's sensitivity and rare gift for sustaining a seamless melodic line ( Olympia ) is let down slightly by his converse reluctance to immerse himself in those many passages when the note-rate increases alarmingly . |
| 7 | His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences . |
| 8 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 9 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | And his hard mouth claimed hers in a burning kiss that sent her pulses racing , a muffled gasp of pleasure coming from her as her mouth opened hungrily beneath his . |
| 11 | His long fingers held her in a grip that Isabel knew she could not escape without hurting herself — and probably not even then . |
| 12 | Persistent allegations of ill-treatment of suspects and discontent with his old-style discipline left him in the cold . |
| 13 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 14 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 15 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 16 | Their host , the Rev Kenneth MacAulay , great-uncle of Thomas Babington of that name , had sent a letter explaining that he could not meet them in Nairn : his priestly duties detained him in Cawdor — to which Boswell adds a footnote . |
| 17 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 18 | Thoughts of butchers ' knives and bloodied axes galvanized the boy into frantic action , but he had no sooner broken into a sprint along the alley than the sound of his own footsteps stopped him in his tracks . |
| 19 | I can not promise a debate on it next week , but perhaps he will find his own opportunities to discuss it in greater detail . |
| 20 | The family man in his complex tripart personality is still as affable as ever , and his two sons joined him in London when his marriage broke up . |
| 21 | John made international strikers appear anonymous ; he constantly inspired his colleagues , drawing every ounce of energy and application from them ; his headed clearances saved us in scores of tight situations and his red hair stood out like a beacon . |
| 22 | After what seemed like hours his tearful mother joined him in the hospital foyer . |
| 23 | Praise , however , is not something that we need to phase out , it is relatively easy and ‘ cheap ’ to give and constantly reminds the child that his desirable behaviour leaves him in a state of grace . |