Example sentences of "[noun prp] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radicals of the Agency committee were as concerned as Buxton in his plea to the slaves on the eve of their emancipation that they ‘ by every motive of duty , gratitude and self interest … do their part towards the peaceful termination of their bondage ’ . |
| 2 | Thus the conventions expressed a provincial assertiveness and dissatisfaction at both parliamentary manoeuvre and the sense of apartness manifested by Buxton in his parliamentary role . |
| 3 | He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut . |
| 4 | Strictly visual language to make scientific points had been used as early as 1555 by Pierre Belon in his Oiseaux , where he put the skeleton of a man and a bird side by side to demonstrate their unity of plan , or homology . |
| 5 | ‘ We considered that but Sir John Dacourt , an honest old soldier , was with Falconer in his room when he broached the bottle . |
| 6 | Rachel asked the switchboard to page Dr Markham in his meeting , then she sent for Greg and the factory ambulance . |
| 7 | The Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi took the plan to all the various Lebanese parties during July , visiting Gen. Aoun in his Baabda headquarters on at least three occasions . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes , work , ’ said Dr Neil in his rather hateful way , as though every word she said was dubious in itself , and , even though they were , Sally-Anne could not help feeling righteously indignant . |
| 9 | There is , however , some conflict between detail provided by Gregory in his Histories and that to be found in his other works ; moreover earlier evidence is at odds both with specific points in the Histories , and also with their general interpretation , which sees Clovis 's reign as the manifestation of divine support granted to the king after his conversion . |
| 10 | Not that Evan in his youth was one of these . |
| 11 | As the princess arrived back in London , amid new rumours of a marriage rift , it was disclosed that 11-month-old Louis Lonsdale , the only son of Laura and James Lonsdale , died on Tuesday in his cot . |
| 12 | As the princess arrived back in London , it was disclosed that 11-month-old Louis Lonsdale , the only son of Laura and James Lonsdale , died on Tuesday in his cot . |
| 13 | The Reverend John Walker in his " Report on the Hebrides " 1764 and 1771 writes " There is not the smallest appearance of coal in Ila . " |
| 14 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 15 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , even for Fielding , Mr Allworthy in his Gothic mansion is an ideal as his name implies , a man whose estate epitomizes the whole world . |
| 17 | ‘ The rest to some faint meaning make pretence / But Shadwell never deviates into sense , ’ wrote Dryden in his verse satire . |
| 18 | ONLY a handful of artists have been sufficiently disturbed by the violence of war to capture it in their paintings : Goya certainly , Henry Moore in his air-raid shelter sketches , Picasso in his ‘ Guernica ’ perhaps , and , a step down , Paul Nash and Wyndham Lewis . |
| 19 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 20 | It is not surprising that Dubček in his ascendancy gained the support of as many ‘ Stalinists ’ as backed the ‘ conservative ’ , Novotný ; nor that Novotný 's record was subsequently depicted as more ‘ Stalinist ’ than it was . |
| 21 | But world-travelled Francie , who is heavily involved with the St. Canice GFC in his home town , is now only too delighted to adopt a ‘ parochial stance ’ as football fever rages all around him . |
| 22 | ROOM AT THE TOP Max Egremont in his garret at Petworth |
| 23 | It is the victim of too many boats discharging effluent straight into the water according to lake ranger Tony Hill in his annual report . |
| 24 | So says ex-Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade in his book , Maxwell 's Fall , due on April 27 from Simon & Schuster . |
| 25 | Two other bailiffs are named by Thotte in his Registrum Roffense , they are Petro de Widmore and Adam Lylye , who are described in Latin as Tunc Ballivio de Halling ( meaning bailiff at this time ) , later Adam Lylye is described as Serviant de Halling . |
| 26 | This is demonstrated by Oliver Rackham in his study of Hayley Wood . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're welcome son , ’ replied Bert in his sad monotone voice . |
| 28 | Since losing to Aston Villa in his comeback game a month ago , United have won four and drawn one . |
| 29 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 30 | She heard her name called and saw Alan Markby in his green weatherproof on the far side of the square beckoning to her . |