Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He leaned over to catch his father 's sleeve and hissed , ‘ No feckin' need to come back at all ! ’ |
| 2 | October 16 , 1969 Mr Sugden entered a defence denying his wife 's agency . |
| 3 | Albert Gore Jr , 43 , one of the leading figures in the Democratic Party , announced on Aug. 21 that he would not seek his party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 4 | Lord Rees-Mogg was launching his Council 's research study , Sex and Sexuality in Broadcasting . |
| 5 | Mandeville and Southgate appeared , followed by the other secretary , Damien , his pallid face even more ghastly as he stared in terror at the fire enveloping his brother 's room . |
| 6 | Fifteen years earlier Philip 's troops had attacked his father 's village and razed it to the ground , wiping out in one night Eudo 's brothers and sisters , as well as his young wife and child . |
| 7 | He next dismissed his nephew 's two-thousand-strong Welsh escort and , having assured the bewildered youth of his affection and loyalty , set out with him for London . |
| 8 | Husband Michael Salmon , a management consultant , bravely dismissed his spouse 's antics . |
| 9 | After reaffirming his government 's commitment to democracy on Jan. 17 , Prime Minister Jean Aligue Bawoyeu announced the pardoning of political prisoners on Jan. 24 . |
| 10 | Reaffirming his administration 's commitment to a streamlined nuclear force , Bush announced that he was placing all strategic nuclear forces under a single commander . |
| 11 | In winning the Northern Bank International Award , it was judged that Nicholas Hutchinson displayed the total commitment and drive required to successfully market his company 's products and services , involving extensive international travel and unsocial working hours . |
| 12 | If Prince Richard were to marry , he would need his mother 's formal consent , and the tradition in the family was that matters of gravity were always discussed face-to-face and in private . |
| 13 | WEST GERMANY 'S new Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , has called for the revival of scientific elites and more competition between universities in order to revive his country 's technological fortunes . |
| 14 | THE Australian Prime Minister has tried to revive his party 's support ahead of next month 's general election by calling for the replacement of the Queen as head of state . |
| 15 | Kohl , who was present , promised his party 's full support . |
| 16 | Not that Caribbean parents are totally without sporting involvements : there are rare exceptions in the form of Ray Tabi 's father whom he disowned but still acknowledged as his ‘ first lead into boxing ’ ; and the father of heavyweight Howard Henlan had also been a boxer and was instrumental in stimulating his son 's interest . |
| 17 | On the domestic front , de Gaulle 's major priority in the months after liberation was to secure his government 's authority inside France , as against elements within the Resistance ( communist or otherwise ) who wanted to combine liberation with social revolution . |
| 18 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 19 | In primary elections held on Sept. 22 , Steven Solarz , a New York member of the House of Representatives and former leading member of the House foreign affairs committee , who was deeply involved in the House " rubbergate " scandal [ see p. 38807 ] , failed to secure his party 's nomination . |
| 20 | ALEX FERGUSON , the Manchester United manager , is ready to leave Bryan Robson out of Sunday 's Rumbelows Cup final against Nottingham Forest in an attempt to secure his club 's first League championship trophy in 25 years . |
| 21 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 22 | Probyn , 36 , is just four internationals away from becoming his country 's most capped prop . |
| 23 | On the Monday morning after Isobel had advised him to accept his publisher 's invitation to go to New York , he went to see Mr Dixon . |
| 24 | With so many difficult decisions to be made , ‘ Jacki ’ is happier than most players to accept his manager 's warning not to look further ahead than the next game . |
| 25 | It seems the parish priest at Upton has a servant who visits his brother 's family in Preston once a week , and that night this fellow walked the road from Upton to Preston along with Aldhelm , who works at the demesne , and lives in the neighbouring village . |
| 26 | Naipaul goes to Bombay , Delhi , Benares , Kashmir , Calcutta , Madras ; he makes a pilgrimage in the Himalayas ; and finally visits his grandfather 's village in eastern Uttar Pradesh . |
| 27 | Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous . |
| 28 | A young Frenchman , when in 1896 he entered his country 's diplomatic service , found himself trained as in the past , largely by being made to copy as models of style despatches dating from the pre-revolutionary monarchy . |
| 29 | On 23 September he entered his father 's presence . |
| 30 | Joy entered his father 's seed-crushing and oil-refining works in 1841 . |