Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , wh in his first papers in hysteria , he did n't call repression repression , he used another term . |
| 2 | His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification … |
| 3 | Though his first beginnings in London as a speculative builder had ended in bankruptcy , he removed to Wales and began afresh . |
| 4 | The two British participants are Barry Flanagan , who is showing two hessian sculptures , and Richard Long , prominently included by an early sculpture of three stone rings and a selection of photographs documenting his first walks in England and abroad . |
| 5 | Suffolk-born Chris Pask planted his first vines in New Zealand 's Hawkes Bay in 1972 . |
| 6 | SDLP chairman Mark Durkan , tipped to eventually succeed party leader John Hume as Foyle MP , is to take his first steps in elective politics , it was learned today . |
| 7 | Such was the disturbed world in which the young impressionable Nasser was to take his first steps in politics in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Mond made his first steps in the business that would one day help form ICI , by finding better ways to make ‘ soda ash , ’ sodium carbonate . |
| 9 | His first tours in DEEP were simple . |
| 10 | Laurent was quick to take the opportunity of correcting his first impressions in several places after Green 's maps were published and Charles Roeder is strong in his contempt . |
| 11 | We have also encouraged the new secretary-general to reform the secretariat and we applaud his first achievements in that area . |
| 12 | From his first days in office , George Shultz had a different view . |
| 13 | In his first days in the White House President Clinton launched on a liberal social agenda , dismantling conservative policy on abortion and pushing the cause of gay rights . |
| 14 | Such an episode would affect any sensitive child , all the more one who had mixed happily with black people and , as already mentioned , received his first lessons in handicrafts from them . |
| 15 | His first weeks in Blackpool were — on his own admission — ‘ an eye-opener ’ . |
| 16 | His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account . |
| 17 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
| 18 | In the first place , our picture of the genesis to a large extent depends on the interpretation and dating of Nietzsche 's literary remains ( the Nachlass ) , and specifically on the mass of plans , fragments and isolated notes which survive in notebooks from his first years in Basle . |
| 19 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 20 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 21 | One of his last appearances in Scottish football was playing as a mercenary for Scone Thistle in the Perthshire juvenile league . |
| 22 | Rembrandt spent his last years in Amsterdam and the building in which he died now houses the Rembrandt House Museum . |
| 23 | Thomas Wilson was first chairman of the Hull Underwriters Association , founded in 1867 , and spent much of his last years in various charitable enterprises . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the century , however , when Edward Lear was living out his last years in Italy , a sick , embittered , and lonely old man , he was to regret his early generosity , and to resent the relationship that had evolved from it . |
| 25 | Erlich had been on his last months in Washington when he had read the lesson , digested it , that safe folks crossed the road from danger , and did n't mind who they turned their backs on . |
| 26 | Earlier Mr Thomson told the tribunal of his last days in the job . |
| 27 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |