Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 2 | If the wounded fugitive reached the sanctuary of his upstate lair , and if Grant failed in his audacious plan to close it down , then the crazy sonofabitch would be free to kill again … and again . |
| 3 | He recognized , with a familiar confusion of self-disgust and hopelessness , that he was telling more than he ought in his usual attempt to propitiate her , to get her on his side . |
| 4 | Hare will need a three-under in his final round to make it , but is aiming for a six-under 66 . |
| 5 | Hare will need a three-under in his final round to make it , but is aiming for a six-under 66 . |
| 6 | His collected resolve in front of his officers is assuring his troops ' confidence in his controlled capacity to lead them as they prepare for an impending battle . |
| 7 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 8 | In fact , he probably enjoyed the nationwide attention he received and there was nothing in his previous conduct to suggest he would be worried by the escalating costs . |
| 9 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 10 | Brooding over it all in his weakened condition brought him low , in a dangerous state of depression . |
| 11 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 12 | The authority in his childish voice disconcerted her . |
| 13 | An exclamation in his own language left him then . |
| 14 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |