Example sentences of "in his [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 2 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 3 | He smiles , and fumbles in his jacket pockets for a box of matches . |
| 4 | Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania from 1947–77 , his colourful life , including time spent with the Eskimo , is recorded in his autobiography Reflections of a Digger . |
| 5 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 6 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 7 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 8 | By the end of the day , the effect of too much alcohol , too little food and a sortie in his shirt sleeves on an uncommonly chilly autumn morning began to take effect . |
| 9 | If the undertaker had returned after the others were in bed , waited for Matthew , sitting in his shirt sleeves in the drawing-room … |
| 10 | All these nationalist aspirations found a focus in Aung San , who had distinguished himself in his university days as the leader of a well-organised strike of university students . |
| 11 | The first to come forward was Bertram Morris who , back in his student days in the 1930s , had obtained a pilot 's ‘ A ’ licence which had long since expired . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that the ‘ whole man ’ Lewis moved from a position of atheism in his undergraduate years to an acceptance in the early 1930s of ‘ mere Christianity ’ . |
| 13 | A formal definition of subjective tinnitus is given by Mr Stewart Mawson in his book Diseases of the Ear . |
| 14 | The events that follow are spectacular : they have been graphically described by A. N. Bragg in his book Gnomes of the Night : the Spadefoot Toads , ( Univ . |
| 15 | In his centenary greetings to the Army , the Secretary of State for Scotland paid tribute to their " massive contribution in the field of social welfare " . |