Example sentences of "in his [noun sg] 's [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the dividing line between what is and what is not permissible is often difficult to draw , as Maugham LJ illustrated in the Wessex Dairies case : … although the servant is not entitled to make use of information which he has obtained in confidence in his master 's service he is entitled to make use of the knowledge and skill which he acquired while in that service , including knowledge and skill directly obtained from the master in teaching him his business . |
| 2 | in his lordship 's opinion it was designed to provide the thrill and enjoyment of waterskiing without the constraint of boat and towrope. as such it was not a vessel used in navigation and therefore not subject to the marine conventions act 1911 which imposed a 2 year limitation period as opposed to a 3 year limitation period . |
| 3 | In his woman 's voice he repeated two conversations between waiters and men ordering plates of soup . |
| 4 | In his mind 's eye there was dawning a picture of this Carrie . |
| 5 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 6 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 8 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 9 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 10 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |