Example sentences of "in his early [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In his earliest appearances he is ‘ Richard son of Siward ’ indicating English ancestry and the name of a father or earlier progenitor .
2 But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis .
3 In his early life he was a keen explorer and traveller , and his photographs of life in Meiji Japan are of historical interest .
4 In his early teens he turned to reading poetry , then to writing it — and , though he showed his poems to his sisters , he kept them secret from his mother .
5 In his early drawings it was the delicacy of line that caught my attention ; there is the same exquisite feeling in many of the watercolours that he painted in his later years .
6 In his early work we can see that Foucault 's position involves a remarkable development of Althusser 's hints that art can function as a privileged category that provides an ‘ internal distance ’ from ideology by relating histories , writing reports .
7 Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate .
8 In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century .
9 In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District .
10 If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name .
11 In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango .
12 In his early years he appeared in concert parties .
13 In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion .
14 In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties .
15 In my view , in his earlier incarnation he was one of the least inspired and least convincing defenders of the prairie farming and agro-chemical lobbies .
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