Example sentences of "[coord] in his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There was no effort or affectation in his ease with old people , or in his good manners . |
2 | As part of Stone Grove , a four-piece band who have spent the last two years quietly writing and recording in the relative obscurity of Clapton , east London , Simon has been revising , reassessing , investigating his roots , or in his own words , ‘ taking notes ’ . |
3 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
4 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
5 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
6 | He was equally licentious and avaricious ; and in his early days , at least until family misfortune brought a pronounced strain of piety , his aims were equally secular . |
7 | The methods outlined by Dr Barsamian during his address at an International Cancer Meeting ( held at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics , Freie University , Berlin ) in June 1989 , and in his two articles on the subject published by the American Journal of Biological Physics in 1988 , are hereby presented in a simple yet concise way . |
8 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
9 | He calls , rightly , for the exposure and elimination of such idolatry and in his final chapters shows how a new science , recognising its own metaphorical nature and its own limitations , can provide more meaning and significance to human likes than the old physics did . |
10 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
11 | Rist deliberately cultivated a simple , popular style in secular particularly moralizing ) and religious verse ; he was a modest composer himself and in his earlier collections , from 1641 onward , he also enlisted the help of local musicians — including Selle in 1651 and 1655 . |
12 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
13 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
14 | What little is known about his early life before he left England is found mainly in Foxe 's Book of Martyrs and in his own writings . |
15 | Jones 's acknowledged aim was to seize some important person as a hostage to exchange for the American sailors taken prisoner by the Royal Navy , who were imprisoned indefinitely as pirates , and in his own words , ‘ to put an end of burnings in America by making a good fire in England ’ . |
16 | Calum Callan , 24 , a close friend of Paul , said : ‘ He seemed very keen on her and in his own words said she was angelic . |
17 | Second , Iago 's terrible silence once his deceptions have been exposed : ‘ Demand me nothing , what you know , you know , /From this time forth I never will speak word ’ ( V.ii.304f. ) : this refusal of language is the logical outcome of the destructive egoism with which Iago has put himself outside , and in his own eyes above , society . |
18 | By the time Darwin was working on the Origin of Species , the man who was to become his great opponent in the USA , Louis Agassiz , was using diagrams to show how the various families of fish had flourished and declined through the geological epochs ; and in his handsome volumes of 1857 , Contributions to the Natural History of the United States , I and II , he included a plate of turtles to show the range of variation within a species . |
19 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
20 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
21 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
22 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
23 | He had a deep concern for the welfare of his men and their families and in his later years lavished much care on his invalid mother . |
24 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
25 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
26 | Arthur Sidney Herbert , who died suddenly in hospital in April 1991 at the age of 78 , was a member of Ealing for over 40 years and in his younger days was a good all-rounder for the first XI . |
27 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
28 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
29 | His keyboard ricercari are early works ( 1567 ) , mostly ‘ instrumental motets ’ , but in his two books of toccatas ( 1598 and 1604 ) he developed further the alternation of quasi-improvisatory and ricercar-like passages and treated the material more plastically so that the two elements cohere instead of being sharply juxtaposed . |
30 | He did not encounter the Druids in his campaigns , but in his literary sources — whatever the explanation of their absence from the battlefield may be . |