Example sentences of "[adv] in his [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking her up gently in his mouth he carried her back home , sweeping her flamboyantly over the threshold and into their new abode — his cosy old basket in the corner of the kitchen ! |
| 2 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 3 | ‘ An inch , perhaps two , under six foot , every bit as large as his father , only in his case it 's muscle , not fat . |
| 4 | Elsewhere in his address he lamented the drop in property values after the last election which he admitted was ‘ particularly annoying ’ and not at all expected . |
| 5 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 6 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 7 | Early in his career he completed the work begun by his father on the Cachar earthquake of 1869 , and on a catalogue of Indian earthquakes , leading to publications in 1882 and 1883 . |
| 8 | Although early in his career he was regarded as a protege of Forbes he was largely uninfluenced by the so-called ‘ new realism ’ of the Newlyn school … |
| 9 | Early in his career he toured with Ken Campbell 's Roadshow , and still says that his times with the former Liverpool Everyman director are among the most memorable . |
| 10 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 11 | Early in his reign he realized that liberalism was unpopular with the masses , and he deliberately scorned the classes : his power , as Lord Liverpool observed from a distance , was based on an alliance of proletariat and priests against ‘ landlords ’ and middle classes . |
| 12 | For once in his life he was doing nothing wrong . |
| 13 | For once in his life he was n't exaggerating . |
| 14 | For once in his life he should stand up and support service men who need help . |
| 15 | Now in his voice I could hear , through the flattening cosmopolitan overlay , the unmistakable lilt of the islands . |
| 16 | Now in his case he was erm thinking mostly of toys and puzzles and problems to be done in the classroom . |
| 17 | He was a victim of a land so accustomed to blaming goalkeepers that deep in his heart he even began to blame himself . |
| 18 | Deep in his heart he knew he just did n't have the nerve to give up everything — his home , his family , his fortune — to return to a country he thought he loved . |
| 19 | Even in his haste he noted subtle distinctions of taste between cerebellum and cortex , between frontal lobes and limbic system . |
| 20 | For his convulsing limbs , gripped within the slender yet firm framework , were not being consumed — even in his agony he understood that his substance remained unblemished . |
| 21 | Earlier in his life he had problems with the long thin lakes forming a strong dividing and horizontal midground ; this gave an unhappy prominence to the foreground . |
| 22 | Though Rose is most often associated with vines and pineapples , he also planted dwarf fruit trees , especially pears , in the St James garden , and earlier in his career he exchanged rare auriculas , anemones , and other flowers with gardeners as eminent as Sir Thomas Hanmer and John Rea [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | David Peebles joined TCMS from Midland-Montagu , Edinburgh but earlier in his career he worked in Edinburgh for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and in South Africa with Nedbank . |
| 24 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 25 | Earlier in his speech he weakened every attempt to strengthen our defences such as the Immigration ( Carriers ' |
| 26 | In A Corner of Wheat the avaricious speculator is showing his friend through one of his elevators when he receives a cable telling him that he has cornered the world 's supply but then in his exultation he stumbles and ‘ falls to a terrible death in one of his own bins of wheat ’ . |
| 27 | I 'm not happy about the way Banville beat him up , but at least in his absence we 'll be able to see how we manage without him around . ’ |
| 28 | We carried it to him there , and told him how we found it , and there in his hall it is yet . |
| 29 | Grubby little man he may be — he shits in my presence without embarrassment — yet in his thought I perceive he is fastidious . |
| 30 | Although his life was packed with drama , exciting travel adventures , wealth and personal idealism , yet in his heart he felt the emptiness of it all . |