Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The apostle Paul when he 's writing to the Corinthians in his first letter to them , one Corinthians .
2 Billy joined the Palace staff in October 1923 as a 19-year-old from his local club , Prudhoe Castle in Northumberland , and saved a penalty against West Ham reserves in his first match for us .
3 George made 41 splendid appearances in his first season with us ( including the first of three consecutive l -0 wins he helped us to gain at Meadow Lane , the ground of his former club ) and took over the club captaincy from Fred Dawes in November .
4 Was this the kind of total immersion in another person which Mortimer Harrison had undergone , in his unhealthy infatuation with her ?
5 For Moran it is another chapter in his long career as he equals David O'Leary 's record of 23 World Cup appearances .
6 ‘ Twinky ’ is now in his second season with us after failing to make his mark in Sunday football .
7 John Beaumont , who moved in 1550 from the Court of Wards to the Mastership of the Rolls , was as corrupt in his second post as he had been greedy in the first .
8 Beatrix wrote to say her brother had served with my father and in his last letter to her before dying had asked her to find out whether his old comrade was still alive . ’
9 She was expressing much the same sentiments as Bob Boothby had expressed in his last letter to me , and which I have heard other old people express too .
10 In his last season with us , 1923–24 , he became a phenomenal penalty saver : between December and March he saved spot-kicks at Derby , The Wednesday , Clapton Orient and Bury and fully deserved the acclaim he received .
11 But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried .
12 If anything as Ceauşescu 's international position weakened the men in the Kremlin bestowed more medals on him , as if to mark each step in his growing dependence on them .
13 Caesar used an interpreter in his formal meeting with him about his brother Dumnorix ( B.G. 1.19 ) .
14 ‘ God , ca n't a man say anything in his own house without it being taken up wrong ? ’ and the quarrel circled about the two positions until he reached and took her in his arms .
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