Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books .
2 Durance was adopting the view that if the drugs were found in his former studio his name would be dragged into a scandal .
3 Kim Il Sung was re-elected President of the Republic on May 24 and restated in his inaugural speech his commitment to socialism despite the " temporary setbacks " which had occurred elsewhere in the world [ ibid . ] .
4 But in his grey presence her larks had soon seemed shameful , and she had disciplined herself as though she were entering an order .
5 In his third season his talents were blossoming and he finished fourth in the 125 European championship .
6 Deep in his sick brain his survival instinct warned him his injury was serious .
7 Even in his own day his wines were called , not after Hautvillers , but after the man himself , vins de PĂ©rignon .
8 It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now .
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