Example sentences of "his [noun] in [noun prp] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which Jewish feast did Jesus celebrate with his parents in Jerusalem when he was twelve years old ? |
| 2 | Since then Five Bellies , who is planning to live with his parents in Dunston until he flies to Rome , has been torn between his family and his Italian job with fun-loving Gazza . |
| 3 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 4 | Northern Echo reporter Gavin Engelbrecht was filming his children at his home in Darlington when he heard a smash outside . |
| 5 | I was watching the ice hockey on here last night , last night , the and Czechoslovakia one and a Canadian guy scored a goal and the announcer said they 'll be celebrating that in his home in Canada if they 're watching , listen I bet they are ! |
| 6 | A man has been shot dead at his home in Lancashire after he and his family were held hostage by armed raiders . |
| 7 | He has total recall of his race in Canada when he was beaten in the stadium for an Empire gold medal . ’ |
| 8 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 9 | He was on the telephone to his wife in Turin when his chauffeur ( who also died ) drove the armour-plated car through a red light into a bus . |
| 10 | Boswell failed to have them meet the Earl : presumably the ‘ prosperous gentleman ’ was examining his water-lilies in Wales when they called . |
| 11 | ‘ I would go round to his flat in Clapham when his wife 's parents were there and say : ‘ I 've got the horse shit . |
| 12 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |