Example sentences of "[noun] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he was a wheel in his own town , though I did n't know then the town was Waldron City . |
| 2 | No , he 's pretty much of a jerk in his personal dealings ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He would n't dream of adopting such a persona in his own business world , and I knew it . |
| 7 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 8 | It is told by Tony Hancock in ‘ The Blood Donor ’ , a classic episode in his wonderful TV series . |
| 9 | She loved him so much , and to realise that she was only an episode in his busy life was bitter indeed . |
| 10 | He held his swagger-stick in his left hand and massaged it with his right . |
| 11 | His method can be illustrated by an account of the most celebrated experiment in his mental laboratory manual — the unc microscope . |
| 12 | Minton was obliged to register the jeep in his own name as Norman as yet had only a provisional licence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He also suffered severe cramps in his right foot because the brake pedals were too sharp . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I still occasional refer to these especially when I need a ‘ refresher ’ so well expressed by Veal in his unique manner . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was a Marxist in his early teens , but thereafter became increasingly right-wing . |
| 23 | In 1926 he settled near Eastbourne , where he became a familiar sight driving at speed in his superb Lagonda through the Sussex lanes . |
| 24 | He was determined to become President in his own right , and he had a year in which to establish his fitness for the office . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 27 | It had obviously been touched up , exaggerating the waves in his dark hair , making him look a masher and younger than he was — just the thing to attract the lady patients . |
| 28 | The Apostle Peter wrote concerning Jesus ‘ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree . ’ |
| 29 | This time last year he was caring for injured animals in his back garden in Aylesbury . |
| 30 | At last nothing can hold back the revolution — the result in his famous phrase is that ‘ the expropriators are expropriated ’ . |