Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] [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 | She tried to look annoyed , but the teasing warmth in his hazel eyes disarmed her , and she found herself laughing along with him . |
| 8 | Although our son had only one more year to spend at Liphook Junior School , we decided that it would be in his best interests to send him to another state school in Haslemere . |
| 9 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 10 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 11 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 12 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 13 | The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking . |
| 14 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 15 | Whereas Rolle 's poetic understanding of spiritual life embodied in his English works makes them like flares sent up to illuminate dark ground , each a light but each separate , Hilton 's Scale brings into the daylight a carefully worked out map of spiritual life with each of the major stages interconnected . |
| 16 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Celtic 's 5–1 defeat in Switzerland still irritates Brady , who admits that not even in his playing days did he take part in a recovery of these proportions . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Brooding over it all in his weakened condition brought him low , in a dangerous state of depression . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The authority in his childish voice disconcerted her . |
| 23 | An exclamation in his own language left him then . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Calum Callan , 24 , a close friend of Paul , said : ‘ He seemed very keen on her and in his own words said she was angelic . |