Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor must not miss the opportunity in his November budget . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a mistake to bottle things up , sweetheart , ’ he said , and the sympathy in his voice brought a lump to her throat . |
| 3 | The sympathy in his voice was heart-warming . |
| 4 | When the donor makes a chargeable transfer ( eg on a gift to a discretionary trust ) he is chargeable to inheritance tax on the amount of the reduction in his estate consequent on the making of the gift of half of the tax rates contained in Sched 1 to the 1984 Act ( IHTA 1984 , s7(2) ) . |
| 5 | Leather work is practised by the saddler in his country workshop |
| 6 | His breath was warm on her hair , and she could feel the trembling in his arms . |
| 7 | Corbett leaned against the corner of the house , trying to stop the trembling in his legs . |
| 8 | The small boat skipper then holds the sensor in his hand and moves it round to pinpoint the source accurately . |
| 9 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 10 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 11 | Patrick could tell by the change in his tone of voice that he was talking to a woman . |
| 12 | For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa . |
| 13 | Is there a man out there with more to him than just the change in his pockets ? |
| 14 | Mentally , he counted out the change in his pockets . |
| 15 | The change in his expression was barely perceptible . |
| 16 | He hesitated , gazing down at her , and suddenly she sensed , but did n't understand , the change in him , the change in his look . |
| 17 | This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation . |
| 18 | She looked up , startled at the change in his voice . |
| 19 | Perhaps that also explains the change in his voice . |
| 20 | But his work with the London Free School and around the early days of the UFO club , indicated the change in his priorities since Centre 42 and CND . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards , the Washington Post deemed the change in his appearance ‘ A kinder , gentler Ortega ’ , borrowing George Bush 's ridiculous presidential campaign slogan . |
| 22 | Even his father was shocked to see the change in his son . |
| 23 | Ghorbanifar remembered how sometimes , driving with him in Europe , North would catch sight of Old Glory : ‘ and when he sees the American flag you can see the change in his eyes . |
| 24 | My partner and I — ’ she nodded in Steve 's direction and Fernando glanced across the room and immediately brought his eyes back to hers , but now they were darker and not so warm ‘ — we have our own incentive travel marketing company , ’ she went on , wondering at the change in his eyes . |
| 25 | But if King is discouraged by the change in his fortunes he does n't show it . |
| 26 | Tony felt that one important factor had been the change in his father 's attitude so that he now seemed to understand how he felt . |
| 27 | Without tucking the shirt in his pants , he pulls a royal red tie over his head that has been pre-knotted , I 'm sure by his wife , Lonnie . |
| 28 | The struggle in his head was so fierce that he had no energy left to fight Doyle . |
| 29 | In any case the struggle in his mind was an ideological one . |
| 30 | ‘ Stylistics ’ thus becomes an essentially comparative study of the patterns of preference shown by the writer in his selection from the linguistic resources available to him , a question of the relative frequencies of choice which distinguish the language of his text from that of others ; it is an ‘ application rather than an extension of linguistics ’ ( p.217 ) . |