Example sentences of "his [noun] 's [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 2 | But then he looked at Chen and saw how his friend 's eyes urged him to take Karr 's hand . |
| 3 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 4 | Her husband , Wrexham Maelor councillor Jim Colbert , told how he rushed downstairs after hearing his wife 's screams to find her dressing gown on fire . |
| 5 | Eleanor 's stories had made him jealous ; his wife 's effusions angered him . |
| 6 | However , it does seem likely that his father 's views influenced him even so early . |
| 7 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
| 8 | How much of his life he is personally responsible for , and how much his grandmother 's incantations affected him , I do not know . |
| 9 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 10 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |
| 11 | The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville . |
| 12 | The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville . |
| 13 | After 20 minutes Smith , who had put the telephone outside , used his victim 's keys to lock her in and made his escape almost two hours after the ordeal began . |