Example sentences of "in his [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
5 | In his first round he chose Dr Who as his specialist subject . |
6 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
7 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In his Fifth Report he argued that there were three or four major underlying principles under which all claims for exceptions could be brought . |
10 | In his second dream he found an axe on the streets of his city . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | In his second aim he was far less successful . |
15 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
16 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
17 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
18 | In his last letter he wrote : ‘ The world and I shake hands for I dare affirm we are heartily weary of each other . ’ |
19 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
20 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
21 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
22 | In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate . |
23 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
24 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
25 | But in his next match he was sent off for twice attacking the goalie . |
26 | ‘ Huh ! ’ he grunted , and , she swiftly realised , must have done a lightning analysis of what she had said , because in his next breath he was commenting aggressively , ‘ So you 've definitely decided to throw Travis over ? ’ |