Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his narrow world there was room only for Rose . |
| 2 | In his gentle Spanish he said softly , ‘ I do n't see it that way . |
| 3 | The announcement proclaimed that Welsh actors and actresses were needed by the eminent playwright , director and actor Emlyn Williams , to fill ‘ small parts in his new play which will open in London in the autumn ’ . |
| 4 | In his new role he will be based at the Law Society Shop in the Strand . |
| 5 | Once confident in his new power he flew at flagpole height with the greatest of ease . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In his first round he chose Dr Who as his specialist subject . |
| 10 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 11 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In his first-class career he scored 37,665 runs ( 37.77 ) , with 63 centuries . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In his Fifth Report he argued that there were three or four major underlying principles under which all claims for exceptions could be brought . |
| 17 | They feature prominently in his present selection which includes Janine Antoni , Rachel Evans , Damien Hirst , Jeff Koons , Simon Linke , Paul McCarthy , Marc Quinn , Charles Ray , Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith , each creating work of humour laced with a thread of menace . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In his present incumbency he takes a company into its twelfth season this spring looking remarkably solid and healthy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In his manic enthusiasm he arrests an innocent man , the bear-like Dan Maguire , and sets about framing him . |
| 22 | In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground . |
| 23 | " 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In his delicate fashion he would likely add , ‘ If you 're so much in need of it , live with somebody . |
| 26 | For example , in his verbal sparring which he has with Bajazeth before their battle he tells him that ‘ every common soldier of my army shall smile to see thy miserable state ’ . |
| 27 | In his 82-Test career which began in 1978 , Wright scored 5,334 runs at an average of 37.82 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | With church bells ringing in his tired head he looked down and saw , 300 feet below , the woman in the red petticoat . |
| 30 | Though perhaps in his blustery way he did try to be friends with them . |