Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONLY a handful of artists have been sufficiently disturbed by the violence of war to capture it in their paintings : Goya certainly , Henry Moore in his air-raid shelter sketches , Picasso in his ‘ Guernica ’ perhaps , and , a step down , Paul Nash and Wyndham Lewis . |
| 2 | ‘ His actual presence gave me a shock , ’ said Crossman then , ‘ and I much regret to have to admit finding something barbaric in his violent stage mannerisms . ’ |
| 3 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 4 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 5 | Patrick Forbes gets right to the heart of the matter when , in his scholarly work Champagne ( 1967 ) , he refers to a treatise , Traité de la culture des vignes de Champagne , written by a certain Frère Pierre , a member of the community at the abbey of Hautvillers during and after the time of his mentor Dom Pérignon . |
| 6 | Connors was a finalist in six Wimbledon 's , winning two in his two decade career . |
| 7 | But the man who gives us the clearest picture of the link between the Spirit and evangelism is St. Luke in his two volume work . |
| 8 | SIR Phil Harris , one of the stock market stars of the 1980s , makes a dramatic comeback this month , having increased the value of his stake in his new venture Carpetright from £3m to about £30m . |
| 9 | SIR Phil Harris , one of the stock market stars of the 1980s , makes a dramatic comeback this month , having increased the value of his stake in his new venture Carpetright from £3m to about £30m . |
| 10 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 11 | In his New Year address Fiji 's President , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , suggested that Fiji 's new constitution ( guaranteeing political power for the country 's native Melanesian inhabitants ) would be adopted during the latter half of 1990 , and that legislative elections would be held within two years . |
| 12 | In his New Year address Iliescu announced that collective and state farms were to be largely privatized , and that a five-day working week would be introduced in March ( most Romanians had been required under Ceausescu to work a six- or even a seven-day week ) . |
| 13 | In his New Year address to the country on Jan. 1 , and at a meeting with opposition representatives on Jan. 8 , President Ramiz Alia had insisted that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 14 | Goumba , who questioned the government 's commitment to a national conference , also said that items had been deleted from the meeting 's agenda , dealing with the media and an electoral code , while President André Kolingba in his New Year address had spoken of the February conference as a " broad national debate " which " can not be a sovereign national conference " . |
| 15 | In his New Year message in January 1990 Lee designated the First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister , Goh Chok Tong , 48 , as his successor , indicating that he would take over " before the end of 1990 " [ see also p. 37085 ] . |
| 16 | In his New Year message on Jan. 1 , 1990 , President Ibrahim Babangida ordered a general amnesty for prisoners held without trial or for minor offences . |
| 17 | In his New Year message to the nation , broadcast on national radio and television on Dec. 31 , Sassou-Nguesso announced that a " national conference " would be convened on Feb. 25 , 1991 , in order to set a date for multiparty elections . |
| 18 | In his New Year message the SOC President Heng Samrin rejected the central components of the plan which involved the UN 's supervision of key Phnom Penh ministries ( including Defence and Foreign Affairs ) and the disarming of all four factions . |
| 19 | Following Kim Il Sung 's call in his New Year speech for increased production [ see below ] , Kim Ni Kyong and Kim Pil Hwan were on Jan. 30 , 1990 , appointed to the newly established ministries of the Coal Industry and the Mining Industry . |
| 20 | Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ? |
| 21 | Michael Clark develops further the radical primitivism … taking it to its extreme in his new work Rite Now , a collaboration with Stephen Petronio . |
| 22 | In any case , he was just a boy , engrossed in his new university life . |
| 23 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 24 | Fit is more important today , he believes , and the sizes in his new collection range from 10–16 , although he is anxious to point out that it is a generously cut 16 , and ‘ not just a bigger version of the size 10 . |
| 25 | In his new post Stewart displayed enthusiasm and flair . |
| 26 | Was he crap last season , and now miraculously transformed in his new midfield role ? |
| 27 | In his new job Spracklen could find himself working alongside a former Cambridge coach , Neil Campbell , who guided the Light Blues to their only recent Boat Race success , in 1986 . |
| 28 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 29 | HOLLYWOOD veteran Robert Redford is back on form in his new movie Sneakers , while British wonderboy Kenneth Branagh unveils his latest , Peter 's Friends , today . |
| 30 | However , Richard Baxter had only preached in his new meeting house once , when the authorities moved to arrest him once more . |