Example sentences of "[noun prp] in his " in BNC.
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| 31 | The nearest we have to this in England is one chapter by the American scholar Carl Stephenson in his book Borough and Town . |
| 32 | He was also closely associated with Stephenson in his experiments with steam locomotives , and in 1821 accompanied him to Darlington , where they met Edward Pease [ q.v. ] and discussed the projected Stockton–Darlington railway line . |
| 33 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 34 | Justice Brian O'Donovan in his summing up implicitly found that Winnie Mandela was an accomplice to assaults on Stompie and three other youths two nights before his disappearance . |
| 35 | ‘ The sands are running fast tonight , ’ wrote Shirer in his diary . |
| 36 | Although she enjoyed the modelling , Constance was at her happiest sitting next to Monsieur de Levantiére in his hot little office , taking notes as he worked on his collection . |
| 37 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 38 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 39 | Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in his report on July 3 gave a strong defence of perestroika in foreign policy which took up many of the themes featured in Gorbachev 's address . |
| 40 | He turned to Emily and kissed her hand and then took Hari in his arms in a bear hug of an embrace . |
| 41 | So he offered Sinatra a role , he accepted and flew into Old Tucson , Arizona in his private jet and did his role in one day . |
| 42 | From 1824 to 1839 , he was in charge of a penal colony on Moreton Bay , Queensland , and when the colony was made a free settlement in 1842 , the town and river on which it stands were called Brisbane in his honour . |
| 43 | He waited until the door was firmly shut , then he took Lucy in his arms again . |
| 44 | He will be buried on Friday in his hometown of Batac . |
| 45 | They said Mr Baker was simply listing one possibility among a number of other courses open to Mikhail Gorbachev in his restructuring programme . |
| 46 | In his first public reaction , Gorbachev in his opening address on March 12 to a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies [ see p. 37297 ] described the Lithuanian independence declaration as " alarming " . |
| 47 | Alluding to this lack of support for a walkout , Gorbachev in his closing speech to the congress on July 13 insisted : " Those who hoped this congress would be the funeral of the Communist Party have been proved wrong . |
| 48 | In reply , Gorbachev in his Oct. 19 Supreme Soviet address lashed out at Yeltsin , accusing him of getting " carried away trying to mount a show of strength " by demanding creation of a radical coalition government . |
| 49 | Sensitive to these pressures , Gorbachev in his Feb. 9 statement reaffirmed the Soviet Union 's adherence to the UN resolutions but expressed concern that the " the logic of [ coalition ] military operations and the character of military actions " threatened to go beyond the mandate of Resolution 678 [ see p. 37870 ] . |
| 50 | A helmet ( the Rebel 's Cap ) hangs in the church to this day , perpetuating the lively story , which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his novel , Rokeby . |
| 51 | James Scott in his Railway Romance and Other Essays observed : ‘ It is mainly the human interest to be found in and about a railway station which is the secret of its fascination . ’ |
| 52 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 53 | Others again may simply have received pay for appearing to help Lisiard in his emergency , a battle with Thibaud of Blois . |
| 54 | David in his bedroom at Kenneth Pitt 's Manchester Street home . |
| 55 | She found David in his room talking to one of the superintendents . |
| 56 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 57 | This opinion was shared by Robert Blum in his capacity as chief of the American economic mission in Saigon ( he was apparently also a CIA officer ) . |
| 58 | He differed from Hegel in his particular emphasis on historical study of the New Testament , but remained Idealist in his theology . |
| 59 | This was Richard Branson in his manifestation as cheerleader — a manifestation which some found charming and amusing ; others intensely tiresome . |
| 60 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |