Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " 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 | The expert 's advantage is in his easy access to the evidence and in his better ability to grasp its significance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 9 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 10 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 11 | In spite of his work-load , Basil was a painter throughout his life ; his early Euston Road work , low-toned , sensitive and subtle , gave way in his later life to work which was genuinely passionate and tragic . |
| 12 | In March this year , on stage in London , Barry White lifted a tiny conductor 's baton in his huge hand to launch his Love Unlimited Orchestra into ‘ Love 's Theme ’ , perhaps the first disco pop hit back in 1974 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Brooding over it all in his weakened condition brought him low , in a dangerous state of depression . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The authority in his childish voice disconcerted her . |
| 18 | The signification is private to the user , and he can only hope that resemblances in his own experience have their counterpart in the experience of others , so that they can attach a meaning of their own to what he says . |
| 19 | He was driven on by a potent sense of mission and a deep faith in his own ability to secure what he wanted . |
| 20 | A coach operator may book accommodation and sell the hotel in his own brochure using his own copy . |
| 21 | An exclamation in his own language left him then . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Like King Lear , Shah Jehan in his old age misplays his hand and is defeated by his ungrateful children . |