Example sentences of "was in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len Hatch was in his long greenhouse . |
| 2 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 3 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 4 | Sam Butterell , 20 , who was in his second year reading philosophy at Queens ' College , was being counselled for depression . |
| 5 | Hamilton was in his second term at Wigan , having also managed them in 1985–86 . |
| 6 | Aldo was in his early teens . |
| 7 | She was in her dream of order , Tony was in his seventh heaven popping the tar bubble . |
| 8 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 9 | He would have ducked inside — he was in his working clothes with not even a stud to his shirt — ; but Meredith was already calling out a greeting and advancing towards him . |
| 10 | Three Filipino house-servants were sleeping , and the driver was in his small gatehouse far removed from the main dwelling . |
| 11 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 12 | He was in his good clothes . |
| 13 | That was in his first branch , Northern Bank , Mohill , Co . |
| 14 | Also at the tournament were Manuel and Severiano Ballesteros , who was in his first year on the tour , and only eighteen years old . |
| 15 | Richie Richardson was in his first Test as captain , leading a team minus Richards , Gordon Greenidge , Jeffrey Dujon and Malcolm Marshall for the first time in a Barbados Test since 1983 and , with Gus Logie and Carl Hooper eliminated by injury , showing six changes to that in the previous Test on the ground against Australia a year earlier . |
| 16 | Hunt was in his first season with McLaren when his talent influenced them to sign him as leader , after his former team , Hesketh , folded at the end of 1975 . |
| 17 | How different he was in his least gestures , even to his way of shaking your hand ’ . |
| 18 | It may have been in the early 630s , when Oswiu was in his late teens , that he married Riemmelth , granddaughter of Rhun ( HB ch. 57 ) , for he had a son , Ealhfrith , and a daughter , Ealhflaed , old enough to be married c. 650 ( HE 111 , 21 ) . |
| 19 | ( It was in his bilingual edition of the six surviving books that Bachet de Meziriac enunciated the Four Square Theorem , mentioned in Box B. ) |
| 20 | Collins was in his fifth final , having appeared twice each for Cardiff and Newport , and for the fourth time he was on the winning side . |
| 21 | The largest cache was in his former kitchen basement , behind ‘ a carefully concealed trap door at the back of the counter . ’ |
| 22 | The significant features of this meeting were : ( 1 ) the bank 's anxiety ‘ to disembarrass themselves of this unsecured overdraft , ’ i.e. the overdraft on the Dempsey accounts ; ( 2 ) according to Bunn the husband executed a mortgage on his house supporting a guarantee of the overdraft , saying that the property was in his sole name , but that the wife and children were occupiers ; and ( 3 ) again , according to Bunn 's evidence , set out at p. 361 : |
| 23 | Where Clarke was wrong was in his broad assessment that British science is being adequately funded . |
| 24 | Ken was in his usual attire of raincoat over flannel trousers . |
| 25 | However , he is still with us , and his contribution from the Dispatch Box was in his usual style , as if this House was not made up of Members of Parliament , but delegates , all with their blue rinses and red necks , applauding to the rafters when he makes one of his roustabout speeches to the Conservative party conference . |
| 26 | Not only did he prove himself the master of a number of accredited and experienced Division Two full-backs but he was in his usual place of outside-right in Palace 's best-ever Cup victory when we walloped Everton 6–0 at Goodison on 7 January 1922 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Chapman had flown in from his palatial home on Ibiza and was in his usual itchy , touchy , irritable pre-race state . |
| 28 | I knew the squadron was ordered out that night and he would be amongst them , and if ever death was in the face of a man , it was in his that afternoon . |
| 29 | His house was in his entire kingdom . |
| 30 | At twenty four , Murray Pugh was in his final year as a trainee teacher at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education . |