Example sentences of "his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 32 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 33 | ( Abdala Bucaram spent much of 1990 in exile on charges , since dropped , of corruption as mayor of Guayaquil ; his sister is mayor now . ) |
| 34 | AS CHILDREN , Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and his sister Judith were so close that their father called them Punch and Judy . |
| 35 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ We do n't know , ’ says his sister Veronica , a teacher and unpublished poet living in Massachusetts . |
| 38 | His sister Charlotte , hoping these efforts were not in vain , wrote to a friend : |
| 39 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 40 | Like them , he was no spiritualist , though his sister followed the cult . |
| 41 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 42 | All its elements have their parallels in the Abraham stories : famine , promises from God , disputes over wells , a ‘ covenant ’ with Abimelech , the king of Gerar , at Beersheba , and , most remarkably of all , Isaac 's telling the men of Gerar that Rebekah , his wife , is his sister . |
| 43 | Sean , his sister Andrew ( p59 ) and Bruce Smith briefly hosted The Hot Sty , a London club that offered up an eclectic and inspiring mix . |
| 44 | Using his sister 's wedding funds , keyboard player Nicholas Nasmyth , 28 , joined the Enterprise Allowance in April . |
| 45 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 46 | William Waldegrave 's father , the twelfth Earl Waldegrave , was a junior agriculture minister under Macmillan , and his sister , Lady Susan Katherine , is a lady-in-waiting to the Queen . |
| 47 | And he surely called on his affines — his mother 's people , his sister 's husbands , his wife 's brothers — for aid in a crisis if they were near to hand . |
| 48 | Nathaniel was the favourite son , fair-haired and blue-eyed , and his sister Annie , my grandmother , kept a lock of his curls until she died . |
| 49 | Eugenics had always gone hand in hand with socialism for Haldane — he and his sister , Naomi ( later Mitchison ) , joined both the Oxford Eugenics Society and the Labour party — because , as he explained , biology compels us to recognise that the innate inequality of men requires scientific management by the state . |
| 50 | Meanwhile his sister Rachel , 20 , has had only one encounter with the media — at her parents ' glitzy silver wedding anniversary party at London 's Inner Temple . |
| 51 | And Wagner 's operas are in a class of their own : blood , thunder , and a sex scene in which a chap gets off with his sister . |
| 52 | Magee 's name was issued after armed police raided four houses in the Peartree area of Derby early yesterday , including his sister 's terrace home . |
| 53 | Neighbours said his sister , Kathleen Magee , 30 , a divorcee , had lived in Northumberland Street , Derby , for three years with her son , Christopher , aged seven . |
| 54 | William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy were staying in Glasgow at the Saracen 's Head Inn , and Dorothy records in her diary that the accommodation was ‘ tolerable and cheap ’ . |
| 55 | His sister followed reluctantly . |
| 56 | Poor institutionalised Smike is taken by Nicholas and his sister to their childhood home in Devon . |
| 57 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 58 | Alice , his sister , was born in 1695 and died apparently in 1708 . |
| 59 | Lycander describes his passion for Terentia to his sister Emilia : |
| 60 | He waved frantically , and his sister did the same . |