Example sentences of "in his [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 2 | He was a hard , yet scrupulously fair person to staff and players and he remained constant in his attitudes until he died . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The 32-year-old helped Sheffield stay in big time soccer but Dave Bassett would n't stand in his way if a move back South came up . |
| 9 | Clark says the player can speak to United and he wo n't stand in his way if Fashanu can agree terms . |
| 10 | Onerous responsibilities are heaped upon the man in the White House , but many obstacles are placed in his way as he attempts to meet those responsibilities . |
| 11 | Although this inspired her to try to find other areas apart from work where they could communicate , he seemed intent on repelling her curiosity , deftly turning her queries aside until she was forced to admit to herself that he was as clever in his way as she was , academically , in hers . |
| 12 | In the event that the continuing partners have outstanding claims against their insolvent former colleague , they will be able to prove for the same in his bankruptcy as ordinary unsecured creditors . |
| 13 | The last he saw was a gloat in his sibling 's eyes , and a final , spiteful , vengeful lunge in his direction before he was taken away . |
| 14 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 15 | Maybe it explained all those girls in his past as well . |
| 16 | But there is more to Gassendi 's final position in his Exercises than this . |
| 17 | In 1297 an Irish attorney acting for the abbot of Mellifont in a case before King 's Bench suggested to the abbot that he would be guaranteed success in his litigation if he paid Rothbury a bribe of twenty marks through the attorney . |
| 18 | However one body now in place is Enrico Pesatori , who last week traded in his spurs as president and chief executive officer of the Groupe Bull SA-owned Zenith Data Systems Inc to ride herd on Digital Equipment Corp 's personal computer business as vice president and general manager of the company 's new PC business unit . |
| 19 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
| 20 | Such is her affection for this popular police officer that she arranged a dinner in his honour after he had recovered which was attended by her family . |
| 21 | Caccini was always more interested in song as such and his most important work is not Euridice but his collection of solo songs , Le nuove musiche ( Florence , 1602 ) , with figured bass — which he describes in his preface as ‘ bass for the chitarrone ’ . |
| 22 | We have already seen the phallic symbolism of the plough in Dame Sirith and the Shipman 's Tale ; it is thematically appropriate that the Miller should swear by " " the oxen in my plogh " " when considering in his prologue whether he may be a cuckold or not ( 3151 – 62 ) . |
| 23 | He reminds the visitor that so famed were Swiss soldiers for their heroism that monarchs vied with each other to hire them , and that the Swiss guards of Louis XVI died to a man in his defence when the mob stormed the Royal Palace in August 1792 . |
| 24 | Control had told him often enough that the agency would never surface in his defence if anything went wrong . |
| 25 | I suspect that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) is quaking in his shoes as the Labour Front Bench is clearly in line for a takeover from Barclays Bank , I fear , however , that it would be a hostile takeover . |
| 26 | We 've actually summarized that as Mr has said in his proof as being showing reliefs of between twenty and thirty percent . |
| 27 | There 's a very small difference of two and a half percent which Mr refers to in his proof as being a change er in the figures which I would accept . |
| 28 | He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone . |
| 29 | His riding gear was rich but in dark colours , the horse under him was more ornamented in his harness than the rider in his dress , and a very handsome dark roan . |
| 30 | Then it was that , with him towering over her , she took a step back and observed that Naylor Massingham must have some highly confidential papers in his briefcase since , evidently not trusting to leave it in his car , he had chosen to bring it up to her flat with him . |