Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley was the evangelical preacher , embracing the religious and the political in his two careers and he was backed by the Protestant farmers . |
| 2 | He blossomed in his new position and his partnership with Kenny Sansom was a feature of Palace 's progress from Division Three to Division One in the late 1970s . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years . |
| 4 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 5 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 6 | He was merely taunting in his usual manner and she was quite pleased with herself that she had managed to retain some control when he 'd kissed her . |
| 7 | He accepted that his submissions on duress were substantially subsumed in his primary argument but he maintained that a threat by the Crown to sue put Woolwich on unequal terms and that this was sufficient to constitute duress . |
| 8 | She thought she detected the ghost of amusement in his blue eyes and it incensed her even more . |
| 9 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 10 | There was still sleep-dirt in his gummed-up eyes and his hair was knotted and tangled , not combed this morning . |
| 11 | There was no acknowledgement of betrayal in his orderly world and it left him floundering . |
| 12 | It followed that citizens enjoyed freedom of speech , association , conscience , movement and so on , freedoms which protect both the citizen 's autonomy in his private life and his right to participate in political activity . |
| 13 | It rang in his private office and I took it there . |
| 14 | Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry … |
| 15 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 17 | Courtesy and hospitality , it is true , would demand that they pay heed to this alien in his great need but their obligations extend no further than that . |
| 18 | Krenek changed style several times in his long career and his piano sonatas , ranging from 1919 to 1988 , parallel these developments . |
| 19 | Er erm John 's in his early stage and anybody that needs start . |
| 20 | He was aware of his fastidiousness in his living habits and his health concerns which only got worse and worse . |
| 21 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 22 | In this scene , a stiff muscular hero has a large , heavy club raised in his right hand and he advances towards his objective . |
| 23 | He still had his biro gripped in his right hand and he was fiddling with it tensely , his brown , slightly almond-slitted eyes fallen to the table , unable to meet the directness of Ward 's gaze . |
| 24 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 25 | Paul Devraux 's features bore a strong resemblance to his father 's , but his dark eyes twinkled mischievously in his sunburned face and he affected a droll , cynical expression . |
| 26 | She watched the play of muscles in his powerful back and she reluctantly admitted that he really was a magnificent specimen . |
| 27 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 28 | ‘ You attended Edwin Garland in his last illness and you were called in at his death . |
| 29 | He 's got his own skateboard ramp in his back garden and he video tapes what he does so that he can watch what he 's doing wrong and all the rest of it . |
| 30 | He was an elegant man , Dr Greenslade , a handsome man in his grey suit and his smooth grey hair , not at all run to fat , like Cary Grant almost . |