Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All lands afforested by Henry II or his sons were to be disafforested . |
| 2 | or his Mabbot 's of Manchester wafer-machine . |
| 3 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 4 | The presumption of ownership which follows from A's or X 's possession may , for instance , be rebutted by a rival claimant , Y , who can show that he or his predecessor was in possession , and that A or X wrongfully dispossessed him . |
| 5 | Faced with a shareholders ' meeting in Hanover on March 13th , Mr Urban and his managers are on the defensive . |
| 6 | He kept listening for sounds that would tell him Blackbeard and his henchman were in the vicinity . |
| 7 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 8 | And his jacket was in the locker behind her . |
| 9 | He had a Lurex shirt of Cherry 's belted round him with a floral scarf , and his grin was like a piano keyboard . |
| 10 | A carriage driver and his horses are on their way to America to take on the World 's best in the sport . |
| 11 | Dennay and his deputy were in Scotland earlier this month for a meeting with senior staff , and were left in little doubt about the general unhappiness at the new set up . |
| 12 | He was shadowy and had no face , and his patience was for ever . |
| 13 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 14 | He and his wife are on their way to Grasmere . |
| 15 | He and his wife are in charge of the farm proper . |
| 16 | He and his wife were at home . |
| 17 | A Welsh miner and his wife were on passage on the " Islay " to Port Askaig to join the workers at Ballygrant when his wife was taken ill . |
| 18 | Santerre and his wife were like waxen effigies but Rachel , her face slightly flushed , leaned forward as if without a care in the world . |
| 19 | And like all of the other investors , he and his wife were in a quandry . |
| 20 | In 1926 , eleven of her students attended Newnham College 's summer school for working women and a further three joined the summer school at Cheshunt College , where George Pateman and his wife were in charge of the arrangements . |
| 21 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 22 | It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid . |
| 23 | In April 1945 he and his wife were in northern Italy , making for Switzerland , when they were captured by communist partisans . |
| 24 | Santerre and his wife were in close council with each other . |
| 25 | That cousin and his wife were against me and my husband was frightened of them . |
| 26 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 27 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 28 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 29 | God spoke on three February mornings to John Reeve , and told him that he was to be the prophet and his cousin was to be Reeve 's mouth . |
| 30 | If he wept because he saw another world beyond sensible things , that , after all , is called ‘ Water of the Eyes ’ , then he has seen a thing which is a congener and perfecter of prayer , that is the object of prayer and his prayer is in order and even more perfect . |