Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his one hour and 40 minute speech , Jiang Zemin reviewed the CCP 's major achievements . |
| 2 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 3 | Every local and family historian needs to acquire at least a working knowledge of the history of religious dissent in his selected region and a familiarity with the national background . |
| 4 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 5 | He blossomed in his new position and his partnership with Kenny Sansom was a feature of Palace 's progress from Division Three to Division One in the late 1970s . |
| 6 | Nigel started to talk more about class in his new novel and less about twinkling nipples . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 8 | He long jumped for a while before concentrating solely on sprinting 200 metres : he clocked 22.8 seconds in his first year and reduced this to 21. 13 seconds , his personal best , making him the club 's number one until the rise in form of Mike MacFarlane . |
| 9 | ‘ Both Ian Curley in his first year and John Nicholson , whose handicap has come on leaps and bounds , have done really well . |
| 10 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 11 | He made an immediate impact here , missing just three Southern League matches in his first season and being selected to represent the Southern League against the Football League at Stamford Bridge in April . |
| 12 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 13 | Blake and Bourke are supposed to have talked together each evening via two-way radios with Blake in his ground-floor cell and Bourke outside the walls . |
| 14 | When he had seated her in his rocking chair and put a glass of dark liquid in her hand , he moved her lamp and his single candle so that her face was illumined . |
| 15 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 16 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 17 | He took a close interest in his adopted village and urged Canon Jarrat , who was the vicar of nearby North Cave from 1830 to 1891 , to have a school built . |
| 18 | Gustav Leonhardt , both in his illuminating essay and recording ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi , 12/90 ) , Davitt Moroney ( Harmonia Mundi , 5/86 ) and Kenneth Gilbert on Archiv ( 4/90 ) , who follows not the 1751 printed edition but Bach 's autograph , all demonstrate in their different ways the plausibility of treating The Art of Fugue as a harpsichord work . |
| 19 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |
| 20 | Certainly man desires peace in his inner conscience and to cope with his outward circumstances , but what is true peace ? |
| 21 | She flicked a quick look at Riven , taking in his scarred forehead and the Teller badge on his breast , its thread shining in the firelight . |
| 22 | He was merely taunting in his usual manner and she was quite pleased with herself that she had managed to retain some control when he 'd kissed her . |
| 23 | So , in his practical advice and activity , as in his theology , he relied on a correct understanding of principles . |
| 24 | That artistry was expressed above all in his devotional writing and in his sermons . |
| 25 | Sensibly the 18-year-old Glengormley rider has taken it all in his youthful stride and will contest the final round in Italy . |
| 26 | Today he can look in his pharaoh-style mirror and say , ‘ Oh dear , I 've been a bit of a git . ’ |
| 27 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 28 | North had now retired from the Marines and , in his blue suit and ‘ rather bright ’ red tie , he seemed to have shrunk , becoming ‘ forlorn ’ and ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 29 | All 14 normal people had the non-mutant version of the gene , whereas the cancer patient had the mutant gene not only in his tumour cells , but in his normal bladder and blood cells as well . |
| 30 | Music and dancing were incorporated in his awkward body and gentle mind . |