Example sentences of "[noun pl] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also suffered severe cramps in his right foot because the brake pedals were too sharp . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Apostle Peter wrote concerning Jesus ‘ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree . ’ |
| 7 | This time last year he was caring for injured animals in his back garden in Aylesbury . |
| 8 | Other than this , he hardly mentioned the Jews in his public statements in 1938 . |
| 9 | He was dressed casually in jeans and T-shirt and sweater , and his eyes in his sun-tanned face were very blue . |
| 10 | All the unmistakable signs of defeat greeted Petain 's eyes in his first glimpse of the men he was to command . |
| 11 | But then why , as he lay there pink and rested in his striped Viyella pyjamas feeling no older and certainly very little wiser than he had when he used to open his eyes in his prep school dormitory over sixty-five years ago , should he not be alive and kicking ? |
| 12 | It emphasized the sleepy honey-coloured eyes in his brown face and the yellow streaks in his reddy-gold hair . |
| 13 | A wraith with bright eyes in his gaunt face . |
| 14 | Let him describe the scene that met his eyes in his own words : |
| 15 | The eyes in his skull-like face have long sunk into their sockets , and the rotted remains of a few teeth share his fetid mouth with a blackened , slightly forked tongue . |
| 16 | A shepherd with his stick , solitary , was already wrapped up to the eyes in his striped poncho , the only true centre of his eccentric flock . |
| 17 | Buchan scored 21 goals in his first season , giving Sunderland another £2,100 under the transfer terms , £100 more than they had originally asked for . |
| 18 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 19 | Fortunately the Palace directors put a prohibitive price upon his transfer , and he stayed with the club , set up a new goal-scoring record of 36 league goals in his first season ( from just 34 appearances ) , topped the Division 3(S) charts for that campaign and his output was only exceeded by two men in the entire Football League . |
| 20 | Formerly with Sunderland , John joined the Palace from Belfast Distillery after the 1st World War and immediately cracked 18 Southern League goals in his 37 appearances in 1919–20 , proving the ideal partner for veteran striker Ted Smith . |
| 21 | And his six goals in his four games while on loan to Coventry City have shown he has not lost his knack . |
| 22 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 23 | He sustained a broken rib and pulled ligaments in his right leg . |
| 24 | Rod , 47 , pictured with wife Rachel Hunter at last night 's Royal Film Performance of Chaplin , needs an operation after tearing ligaments in his right knee during a weekend game . |
| 25 | He had two operations to repair torn ligaments in his left knee and was sidelined for 18 months during his spell with Italian club Pisa . |
| 26 | The reaper cut the corn by bending over and gasping a bunch of ears in his left hand , as Caleb Howe did on his allotment , inserting the sickle and drawing it towards him in a sawing action . |
| 27 | James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works . |
| 28 | Billy joined the Palace staff in October 1923 as a 19-year-old from his local club , Prudhoe Castle in Northumberland , and saved a penalty against West Ham reserves in his first match for us . |
| 29 | Although Smadja suggests no specific use for conceptual co-occurrences in his lexicon-building research , it is shown in Chapter Four that both types are of value to the current project . |
| 30 | This is John Fisher , who is remembered for his disputes in his latter years and finally his execution in London by order of Henry VIII . |