Example sentences of "his [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 2 | Is t his where it will all end — Armageddon ? |
| 3 | If she stretched out her hand just the tiniest bit , she would be able to touch his where it rested on his knee . |
| 4 | With this policy rewards are seen to be under your control — not his or hers to manipulate . |
| 5 | Remember how you would gladly have given your life to have saved his or hers ? |
| 6 | A litigant who seeks redress for a public law wrong in a private action must establish , in order to have standing , that the public law wrong has invaded some legal right of his or hers , recognized in private law , or has caused him or her some special damage . |
| 7 | But there were also cases which held that the applicant for mandamus had to show that some legal right of his or hers had been infringed by the challenged decision . |
| 8 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 9 | The defendant must establish not only that the plaintiff consented to the risk but also that he or she agreed that if he or she was injured the loss should be his or hers and not the defendant 's . |
| 10 | He had gathered her closer in his arms , he was holding her so tightly that she could n't tell whose heartbeat it was she felt throbbing within her bones , his or hers . |
| 11 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 12 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 13 | It usually falls to me to sign the Christmas cards from my husband and myself , so whose name should I put first — his or mine ? |
| 14 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 15 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 16 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 17 | You know one of his that he makes ? |
| 18 | They wanted Mickey to lose that famous temper of his so they could legitimately nick him . |
| 19 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 20 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 21 | Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’ |
| 22 | I slapped mine into his and we both laughed . |
| 23 | Garry has diverted a consignment of sports clothes to a friend of his and we have n't been paid . |
| 24 | LABOUR 'S husband and wife team Gordon and Bridget Prentice achieved their ambition of ‘ his and hers ’ seats in the Commons with victories in the key marginals of Pendle , Lancs and Lewisham East , London . |
| 25 | Unfortunately many couples make that pledge and then proceed to deal with their finances in a very ‘ his and hers ’ mode . |
| 26 | PRESENTS could be stunningly original before the days of pop-up toasters and his and hers towels . |
| 27 | It also has two en-suite bathrooms , his and hers . |
| 28 | I edge round to the side corridor and watch the queues for the His and Hers . |
| 29 | " Postcript : and so to bed " , an unmistakable token of its author 's skill and wit , is presented in the form of a short story narrated from two viewpoints , His and Hers , which allude to the style of actionbooks and romances respectively . |
| 30 | Her eyes met his and she immediately dropped her gaze , colouring slightly . |