Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 2 | Though reserved in his interpersonal relationships he nevertheless displays good interpersonal skills . |
| 3 | And what was the greater plan that Chant hoped in his final hours he was a part of ? |
| 4 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 5 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 6 | In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors . |
| 7 | Because in his shining colours he reflected her back in coral and violet , a shimmer of organdie , pearl and secure . |
| 8 | In his sober moods he was inordinately proud of his beautiful daughter . |
| 9 | In his early teens he turned to reading poetry , then to writing it — and , though he showed his poems to his sisters , he kept them secret from his mother . |
| 10 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 11 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 12 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 13 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 14 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 15 | That 's why David could say , against thee , thee only have I sinned after he 's committed adultery , after he 's committed murder , after he 's involved other people in his nefarious deeds he can still say I 've committed sin against God ! |
| 16 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |
| 17 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 18 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 19 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 20 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 21 | In his pre-sponsorship days he used to be known as ‘ the surfer who lived in a car ’ ; in France he had a tent on the beach . |
| 22 | He spoke accentless English with excellent grammar , proved civil and hospitable and well-read : in his stone-and-wattle premises he possessed a volume of The Spectator , a volume of Humphrey Prideaux 's The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews , and , judging from Boswell , the man reflected annoyance when Johnson expressed surprise at finding books in his house . |