Example sentences of "[adv] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love you I love you while the lead guitar giggles and the drummer 's tongue lies wetly in his opened mouth . |
| 2 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 3 | Frank Jacques quoted the Harvey Memorial Lecture extensively and approvingly in his 1954–55 District Annual Report . |
| 4 | But in the later scenes with Carlos , and especially in his great aria after he has been mortally wounded , he recovered his true form . |
| 5 | Dennis Hopper fared no better with his masterpiece , The Last Movie , and the outcome , especially in his personal life , would hold some interesting developments for Nicholson . |
| 6 | Ackroyd quotes him ; but apart from the fact that Eliot , especially in his distressed state , was unlikely to have used those words of Vivien , there is no record of his having sent such a telegram . |
| 7 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 8 | Duke also had high hopes for Super Tuesday , especially in his native Louisiana . |
| 9 | It was especially in his original approach to vegetables and sauces that de Pomiane provoked the criticism of hidebound French professional chefs . |
| 10 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |
| 11 | A control freak might be interesting to play around with , he was thinking , especially in his weakened condition — get her so far along , and then she 'd almost certainly want to do all the work . |
| 12 | Clark Kerr put it aptly enough in his famous observation that the ‘ multiversity ’ , as he called it , had become ‘ a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking ’ . |
| 13 | He was bold enough in his public demonstrations of hatred for the RUC and Brit soldiers , prepared to sneer and insult openly , and had certainly been ‘ beaten by the bastards ’ more than once . |
| 14 | His intentions were clear enough in his own mind , but it was decidedly difficult to make a beginning , particularly when Dimity was so busy . |
| 15 | The bishop was not , however , alone in his pastoral work for the Christian people and the work of extending Christianity . |
| 16 | But the scene where Pitt really won DiCillo over was the one where Johnny walks around alone in his tiny flat farting and scratching in his ratty underwear . |
| 17 | Whether or not he could hear much of what she said , she did not know , but her heart was saddened that he should be here alone in his last hours . |
| 18 | Though perhaps in his blustery way he did try to be friends with them . |
| 19 | On the question of registration of electors , clearly it is very important that if we now have less than nine weeks from this evening for those possibly four hundred thousand people to seek registration then the it is essential that the minister and the department er engage in a serious advertising campaign to ensure that people can exercise the rights that are due to them and I would like the minister perhaps in his later remarks , to expand on what , if any , measure the government intends to take to publicise the fact of E C voting rights to those four hundred thousand or so er European citizens of voting age resident in this country . |
| 20 | Among all these famous names there is one who knew them all , and who perhaps in his own way did as much as they to popularize , and incidentally to record , the Lake District at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 22 | The sixth-century bishop of Le Mans , Badegisel , who had been maior of the palace , did so in his own interests , seizing the property of others , including that of his relatives . |
| 23 | A part-time probation officer may do so in his own time provided that he has not previously been concerned with the child and his family in a professional capacity . |
| 24 | As his judgement suffered in his calmer moments from overconfidence , so in his energetic ones it suffered from being too headlong . |
| 25 | He failed to do so in his brief statement from the Dispatch Box . |
| 26 | He came in in his old trousers and nightshirt . |
| 27 | Pickerage is only in his second year . |
| 28 | Like Margery Kempe , Thomas Hoccleve followed a secular calling , and like Chaucer , his contemporary , he wrote only in his spare time . |
| 29 | There is a suggestion of such an approach in Marx 's briefly sketched political theory , not only in his early criticism of Hegel 's philosophy of the state as revealing the ‘ imperfection of the modern state ’ , its representation of an ‘ illusory general interest ’ as against a real general interest , but also in the later Critique of the Gotha Programme ( 1875 ) , where he poses , but does not answer , the question ‘ what transformation will the state undergo in communist society … what social functions will remain in existence there that are analogous to present state functions ? ’ |
| 30 | He was remarkable not only in his military achievement but in the circumstances of his renunciation of power . |