Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legion wished to be a disciple but Jesus told him to remain where he was in his own district and tell all the people what … the Lord in his mercy has done for you ( Mark 5:19 ) . |
| 2 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 3 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 4 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 5 | A logical move if I was in his shoes — Belgium is too close to Britain . |
| 6 | Well , well , lambkin , if I was in his place he should not have his property in you long questionable . |
| 7 | ‘ If someone was in his way , Charlie , he 'd be capable of anything . ’ |
| 8 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 9 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 10 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 11 | Pogo never refused any request she made if it was in his power to satisfy her . |
| 12 | I picked a man who looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties . |
| 13 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 14 | He seemed different , perhaps because he was in his own home , his castle ( and it was almost a castle ) . |
| 15 | So Lady , we 've never found any gentlemen old enough to play old William because he was in his seventies at this time , we never found an old gentleman play William , Robert Hardy 's not quite old enough . |
| 16 | Haydn did n't write his own first symphony till he was in his late twenties ! |
| 17 | One day while he was in his favourite bar , busy impressing a young temp , his wife walked in . |
| 18 | And er that 's right there was only four of us then and erm this little coffin was there and my sister was trying to feed him a piece of apple while he was in his coffin , saying do you want a piece of apple in Welsh to him . |
| 19 | And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you checked whether he was in his shop ? ’ |
| 21 | But how could she deny anything now , when she was in his arms ? |
| 22 | When he was in his early 20s Richard Baxter felt so ill that he was expecting to die fairly soon . |
| 23 | ‘ Everything dances round me like a landscape by Soutine , ’ Modigliani said when he was in his cups . |
| 24 | When he was in his teens , his father moved to South Africa taking the family with him . |
| 25 | The idea for Mo' Money came from an experience Damon had when he was in his early twenties and working in the postroom at a credit card company . |
| 26 | It took a kind of genius , Godolphin had once remarked when talking about Bloxham ( he liked to report on the absurdities of the Society , particularly when he was in his cups ) to look so dissipated and have nothing to regret for it . |
| 27 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 28 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 29 | Dougal had officially dismissed his conscience when he was in his teens . |
| 30 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |