Example sentences of "[coord] in his [adj] [noun] " 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 | 1.3 The employee 's duty not to make preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left or to enable another to do so The employee can not make preparations during his employment , either during the working day or in his spare time , with a view to competing with his employer once his employment is over if such preparation may have a material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 3 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He might be downstairs in the plush lounge , or in his own room talking to Lee . |
| 6 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 9 | clothed and in his right mind ( Mark 5:15 ) . |
| 10 | At this time Syeduz was nearly six and in his second term in the infant school . |
| 11 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 12 | The expert 's advantage is in his easy access to the evidence and in his better ability to grasp its significance . |
| 13 | His passing leaves a sore gap in his family circle and in his wider circle of friends and acquaintances . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This may be seen in his pollution of air , soil and ocean and in his scant disregard for the balance of nature or the needs of future generations and his tendency , without restraint , to use animal creation for his own ends . |
| 16 | Brian Burke , ALP state Premier from 1983 to 1988 , was singled out by the report for particular criticism for having acted improperly both in dealing with political donations from businesspeople and in his 1987 handling of the rescue of an investment bank run by Connell.The report also criticized Burke 's successor , Peter Dowding , and the last Liberal premier of the state ( in 1982-83 ) , Ray O'Connor . |
| 17 | Both personally , and in his political philosophy , Hobbes placed a high premium on peace and stability . |
| 18 | During the day John worked in the cotton trade , and in his spare time he devoted his energy to music and various activities , such as acting as the secretary for cricket clubs , always with the intention of promoting his business career . |
| 19 | He lives in Alton , and in his spare time enjoys skiing . |
| 20 | Mr Takamoto is an engineer at the Northtown Nissan plant and in his spare time enjoys building robots . |
| 21 | He was mainly self-taught as a geologist , and in his spare time he began an amateur interest in geological mapping . |
| 22 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 23 | A near-contemporary judged that ‘ without all question he was a very skilfull man in the Mathematicks , and in his latter time in Witchcraft . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Alberic led the parishioners in wishing the Bishop joy in his retirement , and in his new work back home in his Liverpool archdiocese . |
| 26 | He did n't recognise Aspel until the red book was produced from the wide sleeves of his costume and in his best mandarin accent he said , ‘ Paul Daniels — This Is Your Rife . ’ |
| 27 | And in his best quarterdeck manner , the King impressed on the three party leaders that before they left the palace there should be a communique to end speculation at home and abroad . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Go and in his bloody face and shove it in it . |
| 30 | The God Siva , who represents in his higher aspect universal intelligence and in his lower aspect metamorphosis , renewal and re-generation , governs these principles relating to the creative and dissolutionary processes in nature , and that is why the God 's image is always depicted with the Cobra adorning his person . |