Example sentences of "[adj] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 2 | Vincent took this in his masochistic stride . |
| 3 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 4 | Edwin Harris , who wrote many books on Rochester states this in his Second Siege of Rochester Castle . |
| 5 | Joe Darby explains the strategy for achieving this in his Chief Executive 's review . |
| 6 | John Entwistle of the Who has one like this in his front room and Elton John is known to be a collector . |
| 7 | It 's in a paper I did n't put on the reading list because most of it is not relevant , it 's called Is Democracy Special ? and this in his collective papers . |
| 8 | But in this respect Anselm belonged to the past , and one of the chief symptoms of this in his later years is the determination with which , against all the interests and policy of successive popes after Gregory VII , he argued the case , and fought for the principle of the primatial authority of Canterbury throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 9 | But , but , but from the em from the employers point of view , what he stands to lose if that person 's away from work , I mean , all all all the er , chap 's gon na lose is his , his income so , if he was doing it this in his own case , he would be looking to replace . |
| 10 | In his Life Together Bonhoeffer told how he tried this in his experimental community before World War II . |
| 11 | But David 's decided to get involved in this in his sixth year coming up to his A levels |
| 12 | Crystal ( 1979 ) demonstrates this in his valuable analysis of a piece of personal reminiscence by a 9 year old . |
| 13 | The nature of his art hardly allows the sculptor to reject the baser elements so explicitly , but I think we shall see that he makes it clear in his own way that he does so . |
| 14 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 15 | He is clear in his own mind about the reason why that is so necessary . |
| 16 | Most important of all , she thought , as she picked over the problems of his character , as the days went on he seemed to be so much steadier , so much easier in his own skin . |
| 17 | Then he forced her legs apart , brutal in his final mastery . |
| 18 | It is of course possible that he was wrong in his initial assumption — which would explain why he never expanded his ‘ proof ’ in his notes — but we have to remember that the man was a mathematical genius . |
| 19 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 20 | Even Sturge , whom Stephen cast in a minor role in the heroic days , had been ‘ so headstrong in his peculiar notions of right and wrong ’ that he had embarrassed the Young England abolitionists in the 1830s and such ‘ eccentric principles ’ as his pacifism had , in Stephen 's judgement , led the BFASS into error by opposing the continuation of the squadron policy in West African waters in the 1840s . |
| 21 | Is n't monkey funny in his red clown 's suit ? |
| 22 | Is n't monkey funny in his red clown 's suit |
| 23 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 24 | His love for his father , which had been manifest in his earliest period , was therefore the source of his energy in struggling against God and of his acuteness in criticizing religion . |
| 25 | The same quality is manifest in his own paintings which we have the comfort and delight of seeing in this exhibition . |
| 26 | Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter . |
| 27 | However , the only person Leese was associated with in the 1930s who was later to become distinguished in his own field , was the popular medieval historian and expert on Gothic architecture , John Hooper Harvey . |
| 28 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 29 | But Chancellor Kohl has hand picked him to be president despite bitter opposition including some in his own party . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |