Example sentences of "in his [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's youthful familiarity with Kipling 's stories was clear in his 1 909 student essay on that author 's prose . |
| 2 | He looked Parker square in his one good eye . |
| 3 | Sweat stood out on his brow , fury was bright in his one good eye . |
| 4 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |
| 5 | Curtis looked extremely sharp in his 6–0 6–1 dismissal of Broxbourne 's Nick Lester to set up a final which , on paper , looked evenly balanced . |
| 6 | Six months after this promotion he again called me to his office to suggest , in his gentle diplomatic way , that while the CBC was happy with my work as Production Manager , it had been observed that I was still producing almost as many shows as before . |
| 7 | Even ordinary words sounded nice in his gentle accented English , and she felt pleased to have Rafaelo 's approbation . |
| 8 | He would soon use these newly acquired talents in the play Jimmy Shine , but the only time in which he has attempted to sing on film were in his two biggest turkeys — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me ? and Ishtar . |
| 9 | There were no Rembrandts , no Chippendale furniture , nothing that indicated that Harold Wilson had achieved any prosperity in his many arduous years in opposition . |
| 10 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 11 | IN HIS new live video , Relentless , Hicks plays a boggle-eyed Pied Piper leading several hundred frightened Canadians into a customised universe inhabited by hillbilly aliens , imaginary Iraqi soldiers and moths who fly all the way to the sun . |
| 12 | celebrations this week at Jackdaws Castle … racing trainer David Nicholson 's had two winners in his new stable … the first one Cannon Class was the Princess Royal 's horse … |
| 13 | Tariq Ali , who took the left intelligentsia apart in Redemption , is fortunate that British Trots wo n't use the bourgeois libel laws ; while Melvyn Bragg has a transparently sour sketch of a Lynn Barber-style interviewer in his new serial-novel Crystal Rooms . |
| 14 | Nigel Blenkarne , Director of Golf at Bowood Golf and Country Club in Wiltshire , addresses the problem of warming-up in his new instructional video , ‘ Warm-Up For Golf ’ . |
| 15 | That is why ‘ Dusty ’ Hare will not find it easy to wave a magic wand at Nottingham in his new paid position of director of rugby . |
| 16 | The hotel lift boy was showing off in his new high speed lift when a lady guest got in . |
| 17 | In his new five-part Channel 4 series The Feast of Christmas , Paul Levy takes an idiosyncratic view of this important festival in the Christian calendar . |
| 18 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding Major 's valiant efforts to balance pro- and anti-Thatcher elements in his new ministerial appointments , the right must be feeling increasingly uneasy about the broad thrust of what is happening . |
| 20 | When a figure such as Duck , amenable , respectful and flattering in his gratitude came to be transplanted from his native Wiltshire to mingle with the best society of the land , his mentors no longer questioned his right to such an elevation , but were immediately at pains to educate him to become an inconspicuous unit in his new social caste . |
| 21 | Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune . |
| 22 | ‘ If Eric helps us to win the Championship in his first six months , then great . ’ |
| 23 | He narrowly missed a century on FOUR occasions in his first six matches . |
| 24 | David Gilford , winner of the Moroccan and Portuguese Opens earlier this year , shot two birdies in his first six holes to go to nine under , one off the lead . |
| 25 | the Instonians skipper was soon lifted when man of the match Andrew Rose sent back three Railway Union batsmen for four runs in his first six overs . |
| 26 | Yet Faldo , who finished his second round in semi darkness last night , and started badly yesterday with two bogeys in his first six holes , was remarkably cheerful . |
| 27 | In his first Annual Report seven years earlier , he had mentioned that 16 boys had gained Higher School Certificates ; this year the number was 41 ; and the following year no fewer than 18 Old Stopfordians obtained degrees at Cambridge alone . |
| 28 | In his first annual review as Chief Executive of LASMO , the international oil and gas exploration and production company , Mr Joe Darby describes his immediate objective as being ‘ to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow ’ . |
| 29 | Roy Stone , the 22-year-old lightweight from Middlesex in his first major international , did well to take Bertalan Hajtos , Hungary 's 1986 European champion , to a decision . |
| 30 | In his first major interview since moving to Chrysler as chairman elect , he says : ‘ The problem with the Elan was very simple : it came in dramatically over its cost target and its investment target , and the marketplace did n't put as much value on the vehicle as it cost to build it . ’ |