Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was such quiet authority in his deep voice that she nodded , instinctively obeying the command , remaining stiff and unfeeling as she watched him go back inside . |
| 2 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 3 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 4 | There was a minor , uninfluential theme in his posthumous reputation that he had come by abnormally horny knees from long hours in prayer . |
| 5 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 6 | There are many gaps in his legal knowledge that he now has an opportunity to make good , as he never will again . |
| 7 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 8 | He was quite literally correct in this , as he was also in his further prophecy that it would not succeed , since ‘ the wages of heroism is death ’ . |
| 9 | It is possible , however , that Berkeley 's evident sensitivity to charges of scepticism is rooted not simply in his cherished hope that they are false , but also in some dim feeling that they are not completely unjust . |
| 10 | Jesus had shown the way back to God and had demonstrated in his own person that he was the Way , but men and women in order to return to God would need to freely join themselves to the new humanity of Christ . |
| 11 | The nature of his art hardly allows the sculptor to reject the baser elements so explicitly , but I think we shall see that he makes it clear in his own way that he does so . |
| 12 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 13 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 14 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |