Example sentences of "[noun] in his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 2 | Now he held the wheel in his long-fingered brown hands , tossed a tambourine in my lap and marked a beat : ‘ Wahida , wahida , wahida ’ — ‘ One , one , one . ’ |
| 3 | I knew he was a wheel in his own town , though I did n't know then the town was Waldron City . |
| 4 | No , he 's pretty much of a jerk in his personal dealings ’ . |
| 5 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 6 | Thus the conventions expressed a provincial assertiveness and dissatisfaction at both parliamentary manoeuvre and the sense of apartness manifested by Buxton in his parliamentary role . |
| 7 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 8 | A man has been convicted of causing suffering to thirty eight pets in his tiny terraced house . |
| 9 | He would n't dream of adopting such a persona in his own business world , and I knew it . |
| 10 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 11 | It is told by Tony Hancock in ‘ The Blood Donor ’ , a classic episode in his wonderful TV series . |
| 12 | She loved him so much , and to realise that she was only an episode in his busy life was bitter indeed . |
| 13 | He held his swagger-stick in his left hand and massaged it with his right . |
| 14 | His method can be illustrated by an account of the most celebrated experiment in his mental laboratory manual — the unc microscope . |
| 15 | Minton was obliged to register the jeep in his own name as Norman as yet had only a provisional licence . |
| 16 | Simmons entered the Test with two centuries in his two innings in the One-Day Internationals but he did nothing to erase the doubts over his credentials as a Test batsman , airily driving a low catch to mid-off . |
| 17 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 18 | The boost in his own confidence was tremendous and I recall James feeling , quite rightly , that he had now proved his right to be included among the top drivers . |
| 19 | He also suffered severe cramps in his right foot because the brake pedals were too sharp . |
| 20 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 21 | He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad . |
| 22 | We simply drove over Mount Lebanon on the Damascus highway , turned a corner west of Chtaura where silver birches ran beside the road and there , quite casually , stood a Syrian soldier in combat fatigues , rifle over his shoulder , cigarette in his mouth , a swaggerstick covered in snakeskin in his right hand . |
| 23 | I still occasional refer to these especially when I need a ‘ refresher ’ so well expressed by Veal in his unique manner . |
| 24 | I watched Joe carry out the hammer in his small , 10-year-old hands , with a dozen nails clenched in his fist . |
| 25 | And later on , as she watched her skinny little husband skulking around the bedroom in his purple-striped pyjamas with a pork-pie hat on his head , she thought how stupid he looked . |
| 26 | He was a Marxist in his early teens , but thereafter became increasingly right-wing . |
| 27 | In 1926 he settled near Eastbourne , where he became a familiar sight driving at speed in his superb Lagonda through the Sussex lanes . |
| 28 | He was determined to become President in his own right , and he had a year in which to establish his fitness for the office . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , even for Fielding , Mr Allworthy in his Gothic mansion is an ideal as his name implies , a man whose estate epitomizes the whole world . |
| 30 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |