Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his 1981 book Life Itself Crick suggests that life came to our world because a billennia-old extraterrestrial civilization deliberately sent out vast numbers of spacecraft packed with living spores , hoping thereby to ‘ seed ’ countless potentially life-supporting planets in the Galaxy . |
| 2 | In his blue Guernsey sweater he looked every bit an old sea dog . |
| 3 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 4 | He did n't recognise Aspel until the red book was produced from the wide sleeves of his costume and in his best mandarin accent he said , ‘ Paul Daniels — This Is Your Rife . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed he had not tried to disguise in his Middle East diaries what he knew would happen to the soldiers . |
| 6 | When Patrick Forbes proffered such divisions in his excellent work Champagne it had no bearing on the regulations . |
| 7 | Outside the Roman city walls ( though in the heart of the modern city ) lay a great cemetery area ; and here , between 379 and 386 , St Ambrose built a basilica over the martyria of two Roman martyrs , St Gervasius and St Protasius ; and beside them in his own basilica Ambrose himself was laid to rest . |
| 8 | Anyhow , he praised Fathers and Children to its author , and in his own Winter Notes he remarked Bazarov 's ‘ greatness of spirit , in spite of all his nihilism ’ . |
| 9 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |