Example sentences of "his early [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | It was also registration day at McGill University , which marked a particular and new phase in his early life — in one sense , a new independence . |
| 3 | Insistence on instant cause and effect was particularly prevalent among sects such as Plymouth Brethren , and Edmund Gosse , in recording his early life , has given revealing examples of his father 's inflexible thinking . |
| 4 | Richard Cecil had this thought in the forefront of his mind , writing in his journal about his early life before his conversion to ‘ vital religion ’ : |
| 5 | ‘ He 's forgotten his early life as Peter Pan and put all the energy into his work that he used to put into Neverland . |
| 6 | ‘ So we are trying to fill out the details of his early life . |
| 7 | He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him . |
| 8 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 9 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 10 | This meant that his early life made him totally dependent on his parents , particularly his mother , to a degree far beyond that necessary to any other living creatures . |
| 11 | Corbett spoke about his early life , his wars in Wales and work at the Chancery . |
| 12 | At this distance it is impossible to tell if Gert could have made more of his early life if he had been given the chance to make use of the ‘ creative ability ’ spotted early on by one of his helpers . |
| 13 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 14 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 15 | His parents were members of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren and their strict religion dominated his early life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 18 | In his early life Ken was suspected by some of his acquaintances of sympathy with Roman Catholicism . |
| 19 | With its overtly Flaubertian title echoing La Tentation de Saint Antoine , Stephen Eisenman has divided his study of the graphic oeuvre of Odilon Redon into three chapters and an epilogue ostensibly treating themes of his early life , popular culture and what he has called ‘ the crucible of Symbolism ’ . |
| 20 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 21 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 22 | Interestingly enough , the really hard to place child would appear to be not the young mentally or physically handicapped child , but the older child coming into care from a muddled family situation , possibly where child abuse or neglect have figured in his early life . |
| 23 | Masefield 's years in training on the Conway and his scant year at sea were among many experiences in his early life in which he pursued a quest for beauty , in nature and in man , a quest whose romantic zest was combined with a strong interest in technical matters , in the structure and working of everyday . |
| 24 | Despite so much storm and stress in his early life , Gavrilov remains cheerfully outgoing and resilient , relishing the controversy and point-counter-point that surrounds his performances . |
| 25 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 26 | And er course I I do n't know a lot about his early life cos er I was young to remember it . |
| 27 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 28 | Nothing is known of his early life , but it is clear that he acquired practical experience of chemistry and engineering . |
| 29 | There is little information about his early life but reputedly he attended Oundle School . |
| 30 | In his early life he was a keen explorer and traveller , and his photographs of life in Meiji Japan are of historical interest . |