Example sentences of "in his [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 2 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 3 | Toubert is doubtless correct in his criticism that Pfaff 's estimate of the income of the papacy — made on the basis of the Liber Censuum — is in fact inclusive of many " ghost monies " ; compiled over many years , rather than an actual account . |
| 4 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 5 | He was a hard , yet scrupulously fair person to staff and players and he remained constant in his attitudes until he died . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In the ideal I have of Art , I think that one must not show one 's own , and that the artist must no more appear in his work than God does in nature . |
| 7 | But there is an interdependence between the various themes in his work that makes it difficult to deal with them in isolation . |
| 8 | Towards the end of his life Petipa made much more use of demi-caractère elements in his work and strengthened the characteristics of the steps he used . |
| 9 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 10 | She seemed to take no interest at all in his work and did n't even take care of him . |
| 11 | His wife left him , he became increasingly disinterested in his work and he returned to Cornwall as a tramp . |
| 12 | And yet it could still surprise him that a man could be a sensible and reliable scientist in his work and a fool with women , could show judgement in one area of his life and act like an irrational child in another . |
| 13 | This does not amount to a rejection of Marx but points to an absence in his work and leaves Habermas free to retain a basically Marxist account of the forces of production and at the same time develop a theory of social relations of communicative production . |
| 14 | Last year , Morrissey told the NME : ‘ I am incapable of racism ’ which , in turn , prompted me to exonerate him from any underlying racist intent in his work and to conclude , ‘ the liberal cycle appears to have been completed ’ . |
| 15 | Reich was seen as too political in his work and was eventually removed from the International Psychoanalytic movement . |
| 16 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 17 | To his surprise and delight , members of a younger generation found inspiration in his work and he was able to die knowing that his art would not be forgotten . |
| 18 | He achieved little in his work and dissipated much of his time in an uncongenial student fraternity . |
| 19 | gave me a C yeah and said improved greatly from the last showed much better in his work and really trying hard and gave me a C. |
| 20 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 21 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 22 | In such a case , however , it is still possible to recognize much in his poetry that is a response to his origins . |
| 23 | He liked the idea of a hidden and unrequited love set against a backdrop of Crimean scenery , and he developed this theme both in his poetry and in his life . |
| 24 | How typical it was of Luke to make his position so crystal-clear , drawing the line almost brutally in his determination that she should n't make any personal conclusions from his offer . |
| 25 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 26 | Duclos was watching grimly from astride his horse , and a hush fell on the compound when he rose in his stirrups and lifted his own stave from its leather scabbard as a signal to the cai to begin . |
| 27 | ‘ This is the Skriaig , ’ said Murtach , standing up in his stirrups and staring west across the summits of the lesser hills . |
| 28 | Michael , still in the saddle , stood in his stirrups and yelled with exultation , kicking on the slowing pony for a few more strides . |
| 29 | As he previously spent most of his time living in his cab or in bed-and-breakfast accommodation while he was working , his dismissal meant that he had nowhere to live . |
| 30 | Mr Beaton told the court that he had been asleep in his cab when two men with Glasgow accents woke him up by placing a bag over his head . |