Example sentences of "his early " in BNC.
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| 1 | His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond . |
| 2 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 3 | The book is a succession of anecdotes carefully transcribed in fidelity to his broad Scots , and largely concerned with the long-since of his early days . |
| 4 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 5 | This ‘ high-flyer ’ was then in his early thirties . |
| 6 | Leonard 's recollections of his early childhood are very indistinct . |
| 7 | As he said in one of his early poems , ‘ Rites ’ ( Let Us Compare Mythologies , p 227 ) : |
| 8 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 9 | His early need of solitude may also suggest this ; more so the story of daring to curse God in his novel , and his refusal to kiss his prayer-book when it was accidentally dropped . |
| 10 | It was also registration day at McGill University , which marked a particular and new phase in his early life — in one sense , a new independence . |
| 11 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 12 | Leonard was a very close observer , and collector , of this scene ; always keeping his hand in with his guitar , writing much of his early poetry to the sound of its music : the emerging Nashville sound , Muddy Waters , Chuck Berry , Big Joe Turner , The Drifters , The Clovers , Guitar Slim and , most of all , Ray Charles , whose first hit , ‘ Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand ’ in 1951 , marked the onset of an astonishing career . |
| 13 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 14 | A pinstriped youth in his early twenties , fingernails bitten into a raw and livid mess , drinks a cup of fake cappuccino in a Eurobar . |
| 15 | His early infatuation was with motor-cycles , and he was a successful trials rider . |
| 16 | Interestingly , even Dr. Cuk himself , after starting up his Teslaco power supply consultancy , did not use the Cuk converter for his early power supply contracts . |
| 17 | A key text is his early essay , ‘ Structure , Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ’ , which concludes that there are two possible interpretations of interpretation : ‘ The one seeks to decipher , dreams of deciphering a truth or an origin which escapes play and the order of the sign , and which lives the necessity of interpretation as an exile . |
| 18 | DEMOCRATIC leaders will make desperate attempts this week to prevent President Bush from claiming a Congressional majority for conservative economic policies , similar to the one enjoyed by President Reagan in his early years . |
| 19 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 20 | But some of these officials will now be tainted by associations with Zhao Ziyang , who spent much of his early career in Guangdong . |
| 21 | Romeo has none of his friend 's worldliness , and one of Timothy Welton 's best moments in the part is the animal way he leans and pushes at Richard Hague 's Benvolio in trying to do dying Tybalt further hurt ; another is his early gaucheness approaching Juliet . |
| 22 | More of his scholarship should have found its way into print , but persistent illness , latterly reinforced by family tragedy , cruelly intervened and compelled his early retirement . |
| 23 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 24 | An aspiring university teacher appointed in his early 20s is likely to earn at least £4,000 less than an articled clerk in a City solicitors ' firm . |
| 25 | Ever since the ‘ just criticism ’ meted out to his early excesses , then the gigantic success of the Leningrad Symphony in the 1940s , he has symbolized the artist caught in the net of public events . |
| 26 | His celebrated ‘ secret ’ works , mainly from his early years , include a series of masochistic self-portraits , subjects in the terrible gear of subjugation and self-disgust , studies of penis and pistil , and move with astonishing art to consideration of the body ( usually seen only in part ) as a piece of classical relief . |
| 27 | Later he thought that his early affection for Fly cathedral had something to do with his interest in churches and their architecture . |
| 28 | Every health minister gets put into his mouth in his early months an ambitious and laudatory summons to voluntary effort . |
| 29 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 30 | Conran has been steeped in design from his early years . |