Example sentences of "his [noun] [be] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 2 | Although Dicey 's theory played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition , his views are subsequently re-invented in the light of the requirements of this tradition . |
| 3 | His patience was sorely tested in the NM English Open at The Belfry in August . |
| 4 | William Rubin has suggested that the Gilles-like figure in the watercolour studies is a reference to Douanier Rousseau , clad most characteristically in his beret , and that his presence is still evoked in the left-hand side of the still life through stylistic allusions to his work in terms of insistently if softly modelled forms , smoothly rendered in nuances of Douanier-like greens . |
| 5 | His presence was immediately broadcast in no uncertain terms to all and sundry by the DJ 's who made exaggerated claims that they were being boarded by an unauthorised government vessel . |
| 6 | In fact his skills are far surpassed in many ways by his lesser cousins . |
| 7 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 8 | I believe that when his successors were actively engaged in that process , they often made devastating mistakes . |
| 9 | He followed the mathematician 's gesture and saw that his legs were completely tangled in a flapping web of cloth . |
| 10 | The policeman then pulled the car across the road , crossed the Lycée and with a wave of his warrant-card was soon parked in the officials-only area in the palace grounds . |
| 11 | Usually , his penis is then packed in ice — and he may well have to be taken to the operating theatre to have the blood clot removed from inside it . |
| 12 | The amusement in his eyes was tautly echoed in his voice . |
| 13 | His plimsolls were now caked in heavy clods of wet earth and his jersey was already wet from his soaked mackintosh . |
| 14 | His feet were bare : his trainers were still buried in the mud . |
| 15 | I suppose that his reply is also written in black on white . |
| 16 | I can assure the hon. Gentleman that his concerns are well reflected in all the discussions between operators and Ministers . |
| 17 | Happily , his work is lavishly chronicled in illustrated books . |
| 18 | His work is also featured in a four person show at Michael Klein , ‘ Photoworks ’ . |
| 19 | By the mid-1930s his work was regularly appearing in all the society magazines as well as in Harper 's Bazaar ( then under the creative art editorship of AY McPeake ) , in the company of his avant-garde contemporaries such as Rose Pulham , Winifred Casson and Barbara Ker-Seymer and other innovators of the time . |
| 20 | As an expression of his political allegiances , his portrait is therefore rendered in the Roman rather than the Hellenistic tradition , and shows the influence of the portrait of his patron Antony — for instance , in the treatment of the nose , mouth and chin ( fig. 16 ) . |
| 21 | He glanced down the slope wishing he had brought boots ; his shoes were already letting in mud . |
| 22 | Many of his acquaintances were already engaged in various forms of " war effort " and he , too , wanted to feel " useful " in some way . |
| 23 | His feet are usually cocooned in two pairs of thick socks and heavy walking boots — even during hot weather ! |
| 24 | His body was later found in a Guatemalan village near the border with El Salvador , together with that of Gilda Flores , a member of Guatemala 's Social Democratic Party , who had been abducted with him . |
| 25 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 26 | Hours before the rebels arrived his body was hurriedly wrapped in a blanket and secreted in a shallow grave . |
| 27 | He was not only a director , dancer and choreographer , but an inspired teacher , and after his death his classes were regularly followed in the Royal Danish Ballet until the 1950s . |
| 28 | His poems are also published in book form using English-based orthography . |
| 29 | Dunning and his co-workers are undoubtedly justified in maintaining that football hooliganism was prevalent in society long before the post-war decline of community life ; and that it was common for young males to attend football matches without adult supervision before the 1960s . |
| 30 | The New Zealander had kicked off two robbery attempts , catching one man in the face , before his trousers were finally slashed in a similar way to mine . |