Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] he [vb -s] " in BNC.
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1 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
2 | In his present incumbency he takes a company into its twelfth season this spring looking remarkably solid and healthy . |
3 | In his manic enthusiasm he arrests an innocent man , the bear-like Dan Maguire , and sets about framing him . |
4 | In his 42 Tests he has landed 588 points . |
5 | In his spare time he reads social science journals and contemporary Hungarian literature , or cooks for his family or friends . |
6 | In his spare time he works as a reclamation engineer . |
7 | In his right hand he carries the magical black sword Kring , which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard . |
8 | In his four hands he holds a sceptre , a string of beads , a bow and a book of scripture . |
9 | In his annual report he says : The confidence of police officers in our trial system is now so low urgent reform is needed . |
10 | In his 1991 paper he reviews subsequent studies and states that ‘ there seems little reason to alter this interpretation at present ’ ( Deffenbacher , 1991 , p.388 ) . |
11 | In his inaugural lecture he imagines a utopian plurality of languages on which we would draw ‘ according to the truth of desire ’ : |
12 | Marx in his early writing was much interested in how the illusion of religion comes about , but in his later writing he seems to have lost interest in religion . |
13 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
14 | First , in his experimental work he has achieved performances that match existing systems . |
15 | In his latest book he tells of sophisticated computers that can move tall buildings in the opposite direction to the tremors . |
16 | Taking the example of an art nouveau dairy part of a Parade of shops in his idealised suburb he says : ‘ First it was new-fangled , then fashionable , then merely commonplace , then out-of-date , then ( to the sophisticated ) attractively ‘ period ’ . ’ |
17 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
18 | In his own music he applies these influences along with his vast understanding and strong technique to produce a very distinctive approach . |
19 | In his 1985 study he develops the notion of a value chain from earlier similar notions of complete business systems discussed and used by both McKinsey and IBM . |