Example sentences of "in [pron] [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wide-spaced eyes were dark and brooding , but there was a softness in them which mirrored his nature and which his wife Carrie found to be comforting and reassuring . |
| 2 | In them he included his diary entries of the days from Nasser 's announcement to his own resignation on 6 November when the ill-fated invasion was ignominiously terminated by a ceasefire . |
| 3 | She had no idea of course how frequently she might bump into Ven in the short while in which she shared his suite . |
| 4 | After a moment of silence in which she studied his face , she said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any importance , but they played a game . ’ |
| 5 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 6 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 7 | Powell , who is rated in the top fifteen in the country in his age group , used his size advantage to great effect in both matches , but it was particularly noticeable in the first set of the final , in which he powered his way into a 6–1 opening lead . |
| 8 | After an inauspicious start to his career , in which he fractured his skull in a clash with Dundee United 's David Narey , Frank became a firm favourite at Love Street . |
| 9 | Yet his collapse is partly his own fault : it is the flaws in Shah Jehan 's own character — his pride , his sexual gluttony and the unjust way in which he handles his children — that lead to his downfall . |
| 10 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 11 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is wrong — if he does not mind my saying so — in the way in which he phrases his question . |
| 13 | Medieval representation of Frederick Barbarossa as a crusader , the role in which he met his death . |
| 14 | ( The mali had a unique way of turning simple English words into Hindi or Urdu equivalents : the clay tubs in which he planted his flowers became fellah-i-puts , seedlings were Sid-ud-Dins , while my favourite flower — the hollyhock — became a holi-ul-haq . |
| 15 | For example , the profits of the manufacturer introduced in Section 9.1 might be depending on the state of the market in which he sells his goods . |
| 16 | But who Actually he was n't given what he wanted , which I believe was an armed conflict between law enforcement and his group in which he expected to die , in which he expected his membership to die . |
| 17 | The same is true of an hon. Member who sadly left the Labour Benches during the summer recess , George Buckley , whose courage no one could ever fail to admire , especially the way in which he carried his mortal illness . |
| 18 | And Nevin is back on the wanted list after enjoying an excellent season at Prenton Park , in which he carried his goal scoring form for Rovers into international competition . |
| 19 | We can see how he used his knowledge for the chapters on Hannibal in Gaul of Book 3 of his histories ; but Book 24 in which he summarized his findings is lost . |
| 20 | The way in which he mobilizes his evidence to undermine dominant arguments and to construct his own is exciting , and helps to draw local government into the mainstream of political studies . |
| 21 | His coach Ron Roddan says that , at 32 , he has never been fitter , that the disappointment of the World Championships last year , in which he ran his guts out and finished fourth , provided the final necessary impetus to give everything for this final race . |
| 22 | It will also affect the manner in which the coach attempts to motivate the sportsman , the light in which he analyses his performances and tries to improve them and more basically , the very nature of his personal relationship with his protêgê . |
| 23 | There is in fact a fine line in Hunt 's book in which he describes his reaction , on getting to Austria — Niki 's home circuit — and learning that Niki was a very sick man indeed . |
| 24 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 25 | The local disquiet and mistrust was articulated in a letter issued by Dr Joseph Cassidy , Archbishop of Tuam , in which he expressed his concerns over gold mining , warning that ‘ one man 's gold could be another man 's poison . |
| 26 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
| 27 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 28 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way in which he expressed his sympathy and that of his party and his revulsion at the events that have occurred . |
| 29 | That is the way in which he devised his social charter when he had the ability to make policy at the Department . |
| 30 | 5 In 1919 , the year after O'Keeffe and Stieglitz began living together in New York , Stieglitz wrote a brief essay , ‘ Woman in Art ’ , in which he restated his belief in the sexual dimensions of O'Keeffe 's imagery and which , though not published at the time , he apparently circulated among the members of his circle . |