Example sentences of "[adv] in his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 2 | Unfortunately he could n't find anything large enough in his wife 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 4 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 5 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 6 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 7 | He treated Vial leniently in his committee 's report , but failed to press for the early appointment of the necessary second professor . |
| 8 | It was taxed and the log book was already in his mother 's name . |
| 9 | Even less had they diminished the image of Topaz which was always in his mind 's eye . |
| 10 | The gruesome pictures were indeed seen back home in his mother 's Gloucester living-room . |
| 11 | Poor Paul , still in his fool 's paradise . |
| 12 | Herr Bremann first visited Darlington Hall very shortly after the war while still in his officer 's uniform , and it was evident to any observer that he and Lord Darlington had struck up a close friendship . |
| 13 | Gilbert Forbes , still in his butler 's costume but without the tail coat and his toupee , was standing at the back of the group , his bald head pallid above his painted face . |
| 14 | ( ALFRED , still in his queen 's costume , dies by poison : the PLAYER , with rapier , kills the " KING " and duels with a fourth TRAGEDIAN , inflicting and receiving a wound : the two remaining TRAGEDIANS , the two " SPIES " dressed in the same coats as ROS and GUIL , are stabbed , as before . |
| 15 | But Richard Oastler was still in his debtor 's prison , more than a thousand pounds short of the repayment of his debt , despite the money which Luke and thousands like him kept on collecting , week after week , from their wages . |
| 16 | The first time she was playing marbles with Rosie in the saloon , when the double doors swung open and he appeared as if from nowhere , a tall and very upright figure , still in his colonel 's uniform . |
| 17 | He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father 's collection in order to present them to the public . |
| 18 | It is the grandfather , however , who emerges most clearly in his granddaughter 's recollection . |
| 19 | As the one who might one day step into his father 's shoes he was also the one who stood most in his father 's shadow . |
| 20 | He made a few political speeches , mainly in his father 's constituency . |
| 21 | She thought about her fiancé Jonathan , Jonathan Whalley , who worked intermittently in his father 's firm and spent the rest of the time playing hard . |
| 22 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 23 | He stood there in his actor 's costume , bearded , his brow heavily-lined with black make-up pencil , yet still his youth shone through , in his eyes and in the quickness of his movements . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The other side of this leaf contains Mozart 's earliest surviving compositions , again in his father 's hand . |
| 26 | In his First Book Giovanni , like Croce in his Sacrae Cantilene Concertate ( also posthumous , 1610 ) , was following splendidly in his uncle 's footsteps . |
| 27 | This one is a truly beautiful model of an American ‘ ten-wheeler ’ called ‘ Sequoia ’ which has been completed recently in his railway 's own workshops . |
| 28 | Now 11 months , Daniel was last night unaware of either mix-up and sleeping happily in his mother 's arms at their home in Bitterne , Southampton . |