Example sentences of "his uncle " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 2 | He collects a motley crew of musicians and singers , drunken Deco , Dean with his uncle 's sax , Billy , who has to have his drums redeemed from the pawnbrokers , Joey ‘ The Lips ’ Fagan , and the girls Imelda , Natalie and Bernie . |
| 3 | ( The latter , of Lyon Cohen , a signal appraisement which finds similar expression in his uncle 's behaviour , as we shall presently see . ) |
| 4 | The time spent at his summer jobs — perhaps not least that spent in his uncle Lawrence 's brass foundry reinforced this view . |
| 5 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 6 | His uncle was fend of French fries and he tells the empty corridor for the hundredth time that they are called chips over there and they are eaten with vinegar . |
| 7 | His dog-leg patrimony ( his uncle was Lord Chelmsford ) has enabled him to support himself and to help some others . |
| 8 | A painter whose pictures record the atrocities of the past , he acts as his uncle 's conscience and it is partly due to him that Singer — at the height of his spivvy , flashy success - throws himself into a Hampstead pond . |
| 9 | Your father was always good to me , and his uncle . |
| 10 | His grandfather was in the service ; so was his uncle and two younger brothers ; a nephew is still serving . |
| 11 | The bodies of Richard Paul , aged 20 , and his uncle Raymond Dragseth , aged 47 , a professor of computer science at Panama Canal College , were found shot through the back of the head in a building near the Vatican Embassy in Panama yesterday . |
| 12 | His grandfather , a respected poet , was a friend of Gaudi , whose nascent cathedral he compared to ‘ a marvellous , budding flower ’ ; his uncle is a member of the Foundation that finances the building of the cathedral from donations and the sale of tickets to visitors . |
| 13 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 14 | The preceding twenty-five pages describe a long walk taken by Philip Parrish ( in his thirteenth year ) with his uncle Richard . |
| 15 | In the Fiction , before he and his uncle arrive at the farm , Philip the narrator describes the image of Catherine that remained from the earlier encounter : |
| 16 | The narrator of the Fiction , Philip Parrish , is an orphan living with his uncle but with many brothers scattered elsewhere . |
| 17 | off to stay with his uncle , he said . |
| 18 | His uncle Laban is a different proposition altogether . |
| 19 | In the films he 'd sweep me into his arms and say , ‘ Thank God you 're safe , darling ! ’ and his uncle in the States would die and leave him a million dollars . |
| 20 | Intrigued , Mungo was about to ask his uncle what it meant when Stanley said : |
| 21 | Although his uncle was a keen Pentecostalist , his family had a strong Orange background , and his parents were ‘ saved ’ , Foster had little interest in religion or politics . |
| 22 | Thus Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia , walking in a garden with McFarlane , could hear — naturally as birdsong — that the contras needed $1m a month ; he could pass the word to his uncle , the King ; the King could give the money ; and Reagan would release the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles needed by Saudi Arabia , not in explicit exchange ( nothing so crude ) , but as a reciprocal gesture of princely generosity . |
| 23 | The Nazis shot his father , you know , and his uncle , the theologian Bonhoeffer . |
| 24 | Hopkinson was educated at St Edward 's , Oxford , which he left at 16 for an apprenticeship in his uncle 's engineering firm at Manchester , where he joined the Territorial Army . |
| 25 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 26 | Cameron III 's condition got worse , and his uncle Todd recommended specialists . |
| 27 | They marched from Geneva , Charles leading one army over Mont Cenis , while his uncle Bernard led another through the Great St Bernard Pass . |
| 28 | An entry among the baptisms at the Old Church in April 1741 , names the son of George Dennis Ehret ( an approximation of the artist 's second name , Dionysius , seems as near as the Parish Clerk could get ) as George-Philip , almost certainly after his uncle by marriage . |
| 29 | From his uncle , Joseph received the name Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht , ‘ Thunder Travelling to Distant Mountains ’ . |
| 30 | King Edward III successfully restored English ascendancy along the border with Scotland but the death of his uncle caused division among the French as to who should be their King in his place , so Edward III made a claim to the throne , hoping at the same time , to break the link between the French and the Scots . |