Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 2 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 3 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 4 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 5 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 6 | The Israeli authorities claimed that the detainee , Attiyah Abdel Atti Zanin , had hanged himself in his cell . |
| 7 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |
| 8 | Finally , when he has taken in all the information he can assimilate , after a dramatic ‘ I will go ’ or after waking one morning knowing that the problem has solved itself in his sleep , he applies for his visa , resigns his job , packs his bags . |
| 9 | He had caught her in his arms , and there had been a soaring delight , an exchange of joy , wordless , mindless , stronger and infinitely sweeter than anything he had ever known . |
| 10 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 11 | He had forgotten her in his efforts to catch up with her twin . |
| 12 | In the early 1930s , from his city desk at Faber and Faber , Eliot was busy paying tribute to other cities which had educated him in his way of life and to city writers who had aided his way of writing . |
| 13 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 14 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 15 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 16 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 17 | Ergotimos had looked to a metal model ( a slightly later example is the superb huge bronze from Vix , fig. 58 ) , but he has rethought it in his own medium . |
| 18 | All these nationalist aspirations found a focus in Aung San , who had distinguished himself in his university days as the leader of a well-organised strike of university students . |
| 19 | We , Christian communicators from 14 African countries , are committed to the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the whole of humanity through mass media and other means of communication , following the example of God Himself as a communicator Who has revealed Himself in His Son , Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | It exists inside his head and he has done everything in his power to build a Dublin of the imagination that matches this vision . |
| 21 | But the bulk of the programme was Mountbatten 's account of how he had done everything in his power , both professionally and privately , to dissuade his old friend , Anthony Eden , from attacking the Arabs . |
| 22 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 23 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 24 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 25 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 26 | He glanced at Helen as though he had never seen her in his life , and made no attempt to get up . |
| 27 | And he has done it in his usual champagne style , taking sunshine trips to Arizona , Bermuda and Italy . |
| 28 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 29 | At last , as though he had answered it in his own mind , he said ‘ What is the unicorn ? ’ |
| 30 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |