Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his gentle Spanish he said softly , ‘ I do n't see it that way . |
| 2 | In his new role he will be based at the Law Society Shop in the Strand . |
| 3 | Once confident in his new power he flew at flagpole height with the greatest of ease . |
| 4 | In his first scene he established an unshakeable authority , which , Charles knew , was bound to strengthen the total collapse of the character in the second act . |
| 5 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 6 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 7 | In his first round he chose Dr Who as his specialist subject . |
| 8 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 9 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 10 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 11 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 12 | In his first-class career he scored 37,665 runs ( 37.77 ) , with 63 centuries . |
| 13 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 14 | In his Fifth Report he argued that there were three or four major underlying principles under which all claims for exceptions could be brought . |
| 15 | If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had . |
| 16 | In his present incumbency he takes a company into its twelfth season this spring looking remarkably solid and healthy . |
| 17 | The beggarman just stood there , eyes wide in horror , mouth slack ; in his upraised hand he held by the hair the decapitated head of Adam Horne , alderman and merchant . |
| 18 | In his manic enthusiasm he arrests an innocent man , the bear-like Dan Maguire , and sets about framing him . |
| 19 | In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground . |
| 20 | In his final year he took the part of Hotspur in the school production of Henry IV Part 1 and had the audience cheering at his rabble-rousing speeches . |
| 21 | In his delicate fashion he would likely add , ‘ If you 're so much in need of it , live with somebody . |
| 22 | In his rear-view mirror he could see the glaring eyes and twisted blood smeared mouth of his assailant , and he could feel the pressure of the gun muzzle behind his right ear . |
| 23 | With church bells ringing in his tired head he looked down and saw , 300 feet below , the woman in the red petticoat . |
| 24 | Though perhaps in his blustery way he did try to be friends with them . |
| 25 | In his private practice he had adults in psychoanalysis and some children too , though with children he now concentrated more on the ‘ therapeutic consultation ’ , where he found that a single interview could at times unhitch a developmental hold-up . |
| 26 | ‘ Pat would never like to be regarded as special but even in his critical condition he was still in fighting spirit . ’ |
| 27 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 28 | In his second dream he found an axe on the streets of his city . |
| 29 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 30 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |