Example sentences of "in his [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of a group from an unidentified binder who incorporated his initials , R B. , in his cover decorations and has twice interwoven them here . |
| 2 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 3 | In his Charlton days , Lawrence was forced to accept any reasonable offer to ease the club 's financial crisis . |
| 4 | Christian Schiller also had this gift in his discussion groups . |
| 5 | The traditional view was expressed by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio medici ( 1642 ) . |
| 6 | Miles was slipping back , and , in his It interventions , more into music . |
| 7 | Geoffrey Haynes , his red features as furious as ever , stood on the opposite side of the square with his hands in his raincoat pockets and glowering at anyone who had the temerity to walk in front of him . |
| 8 | ‘ The culture of Europe has deteriorated visibly within the memory of many who are by no means the oldest among us ’ , wrote Eliot in his wartime essays that reflected upon the atrophy of interwar life . |
| 9 | Again and again in his wartime lectures , he stressed the need in poetry for a " common style " , a " common language of the people " , " the attempt to reflect " the changing language of common intercourse " . |
| 10 | Therefore , I know it 's in my title deeds and I would assume it 's in his title deeds . |
| 11 | Certainly , Lear chose the most charismatic subjects for his plates — the owls , eagles , cranes , pelicans , geese , swans and flamingos that became familiar in his nonsense rhymes — and left the less-dramatic little perching birds , such as the thrushes , robins , and wrens to Mrs Gould . |
| 12 | He believed he looked ill bodily rather than mentally in his bed things . |
| 13 | The dead man 's sister , Pilar , said that shortly before his death she found in his apartment reams of sex notes from Dr Bean-Bayog , including hundreds of handwritten letters . |
| 14 | Rupert had never met Everard 's mother , but remembering his own mother and how comforting she had been in his childhood illnesses he was immediately reassured . |
| 15 | He also includes all the posthumous items in his Etudes symphoniques , scattering them freely through the text but playing them with such improvisatory magic that all sense of interruption or slackened structure is virtually erased . |
| 16 | In his experience women did not like getting their feet wet and muddy , and were apt to have plenty to say on the subject . |
| 17 | In his experience reconstructions were little more than public relations exercises . |
| 18 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |
| 19 | The family lived at Lonban near Corrary , as is evident from William Livingston 's dedication in his poem Fios thun a'bhaird . |
| 20 | Steve Cauthen returns from his ban today when one of his rides is Daru -the second horse involved in his Goodwood misfortunes . |
| 21 | In his China days Matheson had joined with Jardine and others to organize the Medical Missionary Society in Canton and a hospital in Macao . |
| 22 | We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ . |
| 23 | One young woman who talks lovingly about her tears , told me how her father used to say , ‘ It 's Fred inside you watering the iris in his window boxes ’ . |
| 24 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 25 | Patrick O'Sullivan put his hands in his blazer pockets . |
| 26 | In his patrician tones , he puts over his message : thatmodernist architecture is a failure . |
| 27 | Professor Roger Scruton made himself the spearhead of the academic attack , especially in his Peace Studies : A Critical Survey ( with Baroness Cox , 1984 ) , and Education and Indoctrination ( with Angela Ellis-Jones and Dennis O'Keefe , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | In his Manchester Boys ( 1905 ) Charles Russell also recounted how ‘ horrible murders and terrible tragedies were enacted before the footlights ’ , leading to ‘ so many instances of violence on the part of young men , in the back streets of the city ’ . |
| 29 | In his Geordie tones he replied : ‘ Wha-ay man … have you never had an epic before ? |
| 30 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |