Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen , the prime minister , constantly emphasises in his election campaign that his government is the sole credible safeguard against a return to power by Pol Pot 's men . |
| 2 | As Marx rightly comments in his notebook , Maine seems unable to imagine property in terms other than the legal terms which his training had given him . |
| 3 | ‘ Noisy night , noisy night , but quiet now , ’ he bellows , then suddenly stops in his tracks , raises his right arm and points with his forefinger down the orchard , shouting at the top of his voice . |
| 4 | He imagines he 's thinking when he just sits in his room and dreams and mumbles . |
| 5 | JOHN Williams ( centre ) somehow gets in his header before the leaping Spurs defence — and that meant his third goal against the Londoners this season . |
| 6 | Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way . |
| 7 | SWANSEA scrum-half Robert Jones is out-matched by Llanelli 's giant Phil Davies , but still gets in his tackle during the Heineken League battle that packed Stradey Park on Saturday |
| 8 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 9 | Any bird watcher worth the pinch of salt he always carries in his pocket to sprinkle on the bird 's tail , yearns to be on some jutting peninsula at spring migration time . |
| 10 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
| 11 | Moreover , the story of Cnut 's presence in Canterbury before and after the Rome trip , and of the storm and near shipwreck , also occurs in his account of the miracles worked by St Augustine . |
| 12 | However , as he pungently states in his memoirs , Macmillan ‘ felt one head on a charger should be enough ’ , and was accordingly anxious not to dislodge the faithful Selwyn Lloyd . |
| 13 | Mr Careless also states in his brochure that ‘ the hotel 's restaurant provides internationally acclaimed cuisine and top-name cabaret entertainment . |
| 14 | He also admits in his talk that when designing his John Line wallpapers , only two of which ( ‘ Troy ’ and ‘ Tuscany ’ ) were used , he had in mind small rooms , possibly in an eighteenth-century house and which have ‘ the simplicity and dignity enough to suit the classical atmosphere of the design ’ . |
| 15 | Having just returned from Scotland 's weekend squad sessions at St. Andrews , two tough dollops of over three hours each , he was feeling the effects , but clearly revels in his involvement : ‘ National sessions are at a higher intensity than those at club and district level in that you are working with very good and experienced players but it is just so enjoyable setting hard challenges whilst you are learning so much from players who have been through it all so often before ’ . |
| 16 | He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist , nor the medicinal roots like a physician , but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision . |
| 17 | Fig 5 shows a typical fingering , and fig 6 illustrates an example of the sort of legato ( smooth hammer-on/pull-offs ) sequence that Joe often uses in his solos ( fig 6 ) . |
| 18 | My father often talks in his sleep and sometimes he speaks fluently in a foreign language . |
| 19 | Adorno disputes the possibility of such ‘ committed ’ practices , and the nub of the problem here lies in his conception of musical autonomy : for this conception is essentially inscribed within the problematic of bourgeois individualism . |
| 20 | Though Berkeley mentions the scholastics , ‘ those great masters of abstraction ’ , it is Locke on whom he particularly focuses in his criticism of abstract ideas . |
| 21 | In the Macdonald household at Armadale , he asked questions busily and settled himself to a general spirit of enquiry , the fruits of which he then presents in his Journey . |
| 22 | Whitely has in his book The Theology of the New Testament a powerful image of an officer in the war who had to lead his troops across a dangerous minefield . |
| 23 | The Profitboss passionately believes in his company 's products . |
| 24 | Estates tail , which formerly could only be created out of freeholds , can now , as equitable interests , be created out of any kind of property ; they are known as ‘ entailed interests ’ , and can be barred not only inter vivos by a deed , but also by a will , provided that the tenant in tail 's interest is in possession , and provided that he specifically refers in his will to the entailed property or the instrument creating it . |
| 25 | Where an infant actually has in his hands tangible movable property , it would seem that he has a power of disposing of it , of which the limits — if such there are — have not been determined . |
| 26 | First , the user , by this approach , can short- cut the application backlog , which almost certainly exists in his organisation . |
| 27 | who has purpose and never throws in his hand in adversity , |
| 28 | The Palais du Prince du Sommeil , written by Celestin de Mirbel in 1667 actually advises in his preface that , " The favours of the strictest ladies will be wholly won for you , at the moment when you become the sympathetic interpreter of their dreams " — certainly a pragmatic reason for buying his dream-book . |
| 29 | From here , the notion that the husband 's jealousy requires the lovers to perform a fabliau trick is made explicit ( 3294 – 302 ) , after which Nicholas takes up his psaltery , excitedly making music as he mentally rejoices in his conquest and the promise of sexual delight it holds ( 3305 – 6 ) . |