Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 2 | Ya'acov Friedler , interned with his sister on the Isle of Man , remembers the first signs of the change of heart towards enemy aliens : |
| 3 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 4 | Why do I feel so old ? y I was his sister in the story , why do If eel so old , so cold ? |
| 5 | He squatted to take his sister by the shoulder and rouse her ; she was groggy , she could barely lift her eyelids to look at him , but when she saw who it was , she wrapped her arms around him , and pressed her head to his chest . |
| 6 | Michael went to take Maria from Paddy and Sean took his sister by the arm . |
| 7 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 8 | To use the same metaphor that de Gaulle had used about Barricades Week , the putsch burst the abscess of opposition to his policies within the army . |
| 9 | He aims to please even if it means putting his principles in cold storage and his policies in the mixer . |
| 10 | The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 embodied his division of the world between them along a not-very-precisely defined meridian line running about 45° West . |
| 11 | Nor is it only in science where problems arise ; Dewey 's assumptions in politics , philosophy , economics , and religion , are typically western/racist/capitalist/Christian ; and his division of the arts into " Fine " and " Applied " has caused many a pottery teacher to gnash his teeth . |
| 12 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 13 | His meetings with the CBI and the Prime Minister were clearly the main focus of his mission . |
| 14 | But as the months passed he was reduced to the expedient of holding his meetings in the street before small groups of the curious and the hostile . |
| 15 | Thus , along with several of his contemporaries at the Palace , Ronnie Dunn was only really appreciated by the Palace fans and not on the bigger stages that his prowess deserved . |
| 16 | There is unfortunately not the space here to include such a history , but merely to reiterate that what Brian Way was offering schools in the 1950s and 1960s was far ahead of his contemporaries in the field . |
| 17 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 18 | And the Echo can reveal that he has already opened legal proceedings against Saunders and Liverpool FC , as his employers at the time . |
| 19 | The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows . |
| 20 | A powerful , outgoing character , he felt cramped in a large organisation , and had much greater confidence than his employers in the future of headhunting . |
| 21 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
| 22 | His sojourn in the car was simply to assure himself the messenger boy responded to the given description and had not been followed . |
| 23 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 24 | He also made clear his misgivings at the attempts to rush the decision . |
| 25 | With a security alert in operation at the GCHQ national security establishment , a suspected mole is mysteriously killed and linguist Bob Jones confides his misgivings about the intelligence business to his father Frank . |
| 26 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |
| 27 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |
| 28 | For decades yet , whether it be in Newcastle , London , Los Angeles , Sydney or wherever , I fully expect to see , or hear of , his rising from the audience at the end of someone 's lecture with ‘ I just happen to have this slide here , which illustrates … |
| 29 | She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor . |
| 30 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |