Example sentences of "[noun] in his [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know
2 The interrelation of morality and religion in his thought is such that he regards them as convertible terms in the same way as Truth and ahi sā are convertible terms .
3 His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones .
4 Oyama was Korean by birth and was exposed to both Chinese and Korean martial arts in his youth .
5 The radicals of the Agency committee were as concerned as Buxton in his plea to the slaves on the eve of their emancipation that they ‘ by every motive of duty , gratitude and self interest … do their part towards the peaceful termination of their bondage ’ .
6 A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes .
7 Matthew writes for Jewish Christians and in so doing displays Jewish characteristics in his book .
8 Triple X-rated comedian Kevin ‘ Bloody ’ Wilson , who started performing in football club smokos in his home town of Kalgoorlie five years ago , returns on Thursday .
9 He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut .
10 The duty on an applicant to have recourse to ‘ effective and adequate ’ remedies extends to testing whether a possible avenue of redress will in fact operate to provide a remedy in his case .
11 There was only one small patch of disappointment in his vista of happiness .
12 ‘ This is my wife , May , ’ Otley replied with a hint of disappointment in his voice .
13 He nodded , releasing her arm , but Theda thought there was a shade of disappointment in his face .
14 For example , the critic and essayist John Bailey was a figure who linked the National Trust with the English Association in his concern equally for the heritage and literary values .
15 Alfieri 's care and compassion are not very obvious to the reader from what he says , barring his final speech , but there is a very tangible kindness in his behaviour .
16 For a few moments Leith felt transfixed — there seemed to be a hint of kindness in his look .
17 The kindness in his voice , his touch on her hair were undamming the tears she had resolutely forced back .
18 His hands at once fell from her arms , and the only kindness in his glance , she realised quickly , had been in her imagination .
19 She saw kindness in his face and compassion , and she whispered , ‘ I did love him so .
20 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
21 And when he moved back , there were tears in his eyes , real grief in his expression .
22 At that the father gives up his attempt to take an active role , humbles himself , but repeats his grief in his apology :
23 Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area .
24 At the end of January 1967 Miles took stock in his It column of the ‘ London Underground Generation ’ .
25 Horstmeyer built and tested a working model of the drill at Stanford , and in return gave the university stock in his company , Advanced Drilling .
26 She edged a little closer and looked down at him , then , impelled by a need she could no longer deny , she touched his face , following the curve of his cheek , the enticing cleft in his chin , the finely chiselled mouth .
27 The one unmissable lot in this sale of Latin American art will be Rufino Tamayo 's ‘ America ’ , both for being a landmark in his art and in the history of Latin American painting and quite simply for its size : at 13.9 x 4 metres ( 45′8″ x 13′3″ ) , it is one of the largest movable oils on canvas in the world .
28 ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug …
29 Inside the sitting-room he spun round on her , standing across the room as if any contact with her would be an unpleasant episode in his life .
30 Had their father — the thought aroused crazy laughter — passed it on from some episode in his youth ?
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