Example sentences of "[verb] in his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 2 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 3 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 4 | In speaking for him , they may only act in his best interests . |
| 5 | The principles of the common law invoked in such cases are nemo judex in causa sua ( no man can be a judge in this own cause ) ; or auctor in rem suam ( no man should act in his own interest ) . |
| 6 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 7 | Willis , walking in his deliberate way , looked at the boxes on Maurice , paused , even shook his head a little , but did nothing . |
| 8 | He believes that the United States has been destroyed by morally subversive elements ( such as Sigmund Freud , Franklin Delano Roosevelt and , of course , Elvis Presley ) , and he also claims that the government ‘ ruint ’ him by interfering in his coal-mining business . |
| 9 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 10 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His importance lies in his combined role as army agent , official correspondent , and parliamentary licenser of newsbooks and pamphlets . |
| 13 | The simplest explanation lies in his greater ability , his superiority over his contemporaries , and his wider interests . |
| 14 | Paley 's real strength lies in his early Modern works , including Matisse 's ‘ Odalisque with a tambourine ’ , ( 1926 ) and ‘ Woman with a veil ’ ( 1927 ) and Picasso 's rose-period ‘ Boy leading a horse ’ ( 1905–06 ) . |
| 15 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 16 | A partial explanation for this state of affairs lies in his infrequent appearance in the salerooms , for Beuys was not a producer of easily collectible objects . |
| 17 | The flaw lies in his initial premise that if the use of a weapon is illegal , then ‘ any threat of such use — including not only an ostentatious brandishing of arms ( such as a menacing ‘ demonstration burst ’ ) , but also their research and development , manufacture , stockpiling and deployment ’ must be illegal . |
| 18 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 19 | Twice winner of the Paris event , seventh last year in London and then sprinting away in the final 200 metres to win the Berlin marathon ahead of Plaatjes , Brace has collected more money than he could have ever earned in his chosen profession of teaching . |
| 20 | ‘ Neither is worthy of a WWF title , but Bulldog has the clear advantage — because he 'll be yapping in his own back yard . ’ |
| 21 | Similarly some measure of Pakistan 's eventual triumph was due to Imran Khan 's unconventional tactics and the confidence which he demonstrated in his leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed by slotting him into his team 's battle plan at an early stage of proceedings . |
| 22 | It 's here he spent much of his childhood , learning the secrets of the wood , which appear in his latest book . |
| 23 | He has , therefore , to know in his own mind how much power he can harness into a technique and what he is capable of . |
| 24 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |
| 25 | Each author has been allowed the freedom to write in his own style and provides a large set of references promoting further study . |
| 26 | That night , I read again their separate accounts of Raasay , to see what I had missed : the streams of which Johnson wrote , ‘ one of the brooks turns a cornmill , and at least one produces trouts ’ ; , the garden , described by Boswell , ‘ plentifully stocked with vegetables , and strawberries , raspberries , currants , etc. ’ ; and a swift passing observation in one of Johnson 's letters to Hester Thrale , a reference he does not include in his official text . |
| 27 | Another item the retailer must include in his financial planning is shrinkage or leakage . |
| 28 | Besides , the woman had recognised the silver pencil in his left breast pocket , his wristwatch and the tiny knife scar , relic of some schoolboy ritual , on that wrist . |
| 29 | Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues ( 1979 ) makes a virtue out of the condition of ‘ accelerated shatter ’ he had located in his earlier novels by attempting to link the diverse aspects of his text within a verbal flow , a ‘ stream of language ’ introduced by a twelve-page unpunctuated single sentence . |
| 30 | Momentarily glimpsed would be nineteen-year-old Richard Dreyfuss appearing in his first movie as a Berkeley student , with one line : ‘ Shall I get the cops ? |