Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] his " in BNC.

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1 It was not just the love for the Greeks that he acknowledged later , although certainly that was already present : an auto biographical essay of 1864 , for instance , expresses in warm tones his feeling for Greek poetry , including Sophocles and Aeschylus , and for Plato .
2 ‘ God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform .
3 To be sure , he lacked the background appropriate to a british prime minister and even in American terms his credentials were open to question .
4 If , in addition , what he says and how he says it , in other words his style , provide further clues , all the better .
5 So we know that his er his five one six five allowance is fully used , in other words his , his tax allowance is fully used .
6 In other rooms his three children are also asleep .
7 And in recent months his behind-the-desk skills have been in demand from established acts such as The Psychedelic Furs , The Triffids , The Darling Buds and Danielle Dax .
8 In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland .
9 But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations .
10 In recent years his ideas have been heavily criticised , and I would guess that his writings do not have great influence on young teachers of English .
11 It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’
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