Example sentences of "[adv] in his [noun sg] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually all is set for Culkin , now holed up in his uncle 's deserted townhouse , to wire the rooms , set traps on the stairs , gather inflammable materials and treat Pesci and Stern to a far more violent onslaught than was executed in Home Alone 1 . |
| 2 | When Macaulay holes up in his uncle 's deserted house , he treats Pesci and Stern to a cartoon-like sadistic onslaught which goes way beyond what was served up in Home Alone 1 . |
| 3 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 4 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 5 | NAUGHTY Kevin Corbett was almost back in his mother 's good books yesterday , a week after he sold her engagement ring for one pound . |
| 6 | This one is a truly beautiful model of an American ‘ ten-wheeler ’ called ‘ Sequoia ’ which has been completed recently in his railway 's own workshops . |