Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amidst the din of the machines , in his narrow sphere of activity , Antoine had no time to go through human motions other than the motions of his work . |
| 2 | In a London teaching hospital close by the river , from which he could in his more masochistic moments glimpse the window of his own office , Dr. Charles Freeborn , Controller of the Forensic Science Service , all six foot four of him , lay rigidly in his narrow bed , his nose peaked high above the methodical fold of the sheet , his white hair a haze against the whiter pillow . |
| 3 | In his narrow world there was room only for Rose . |
| 4 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 5 | This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life . |
| 6 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 7 | Harry had the impression this was one man who had never been drunk in his entire life . |
| 8 | Caroline had smiled and said yes , it was , but what she 'd really wanted to say was that she doubted if Nicolo had ever hesitated about getting what he wanted in his entire life . |
| 9 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 10 | On only three or four occasions in his entire presidency did de Gaulle permit frank exchanges and an open debate in the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | The emperor Jahangir , who ruled in the fifteenth century , was said to have 12,000 war elephants in his personal army and over 40,000 in his entire kingdom . |
| 12 | His house was in his entire kingdom . |
| 13 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 14 | He stood in a familiar , flamboyant posture with his hands on his hips and his chin stuck out , constantly turning his head from left to right and back again , to take in his entire audience . |
| 15 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | In his gentle Spanish he said softly , ‘ I do n't see it that way . |
| 19 | ‘ Aye , it would be , ’ Ben said in his gentle voice . |
| 20 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 21 | The gaunt man with a snarl in his Canadian voice said , ‘ You said before Winnipeg , and I 've done it and I want my money . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His best poetry is in his Selected Poems ( 1926 ) . |
| 24 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In a broadcast on Radio Mozambique on July 29 , President Chissano said that there were " strong possibilities of success " in his planned meeting with Dhlakama . |
| 28 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 29 | A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 30 | In his shocked heart , Beth went with him , her dark eyes burning into his , astonished at first , then intensely accusing . |