Example sentences of "his [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stared at his sister whose pale face was made even paler by the sun-block ointment she had liberally smeared on her skin . |
| 2 | He was always first at the door when the post arrived , and usually brought his sister her letters . |
| 3 | ‘ Because , ’ I replied , ‘ there was always a danger that Hopkins , who confided in so few people , may have said something to his sister which could have threatened her . |
| 4 | He was Francie 's brother and the dumb woman was his sister There could be no harm in him . |
| 5 | A letter from Charles Carne dated 27 February 1707 to his sister who had married ‘ William of the Ley ’ reads , ‘ My poor sister , the last Brydges of the Ley is dead . ’ |
| 6 | At lunchtime he scowled at his sister who , wrapped in a dressing gown , fell on the sandwiches as though she had not eaten in weeks . |
| 7 | But he 's not overweight like his sister who usually shares this aviary . |
| 8 | The idea came from a friend of his sister who was deaf.His sister said it was difficult not being able to phone her . |
| 9 | It was his sister who found the bodies . |
| 10 | Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army . |
| 11 | You say about Richard 's accent if you hear his sister she 's even broader . |
| 12 | The first comes from one of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti , dated 15 September 1869 , ‘ If Byron f — d his sister he f — d and there |
| 13 | Like his sister he too was dressed all in black and he had the same habit of rubbing his hands together . |
| 14 | If anyone had asked him God forbid — what were his feelings for his sister he would have replied that he was fond of her . |
| 15 | When he was still only 15 , on a visit to Arundel to visit his sister he met Mrs Godfrey Wentworth , whose father was an amateur zoologist and friend of Prideaux John Selby . |
| 16 | But it was the moral pretensions of Dulles and his policies which lost most credibility . |
| 17 | And his t his policies There 's only one me er mediator between God and man , the man Christ Jesus . |
| 18 | When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him . |
| 19 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |
| 20 | Born 56 years ago into a moderately well-to-do family in the village of Konyi in southern Hungary , Mr Pozsgay had no personal motivation to espouse revolution , unlike many of his contemporaries who were driven to the party by abject poverty . |
| 21 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 22 | Perhaps influenced by the number of his contemporaries who showed neurasthenic tendencies , the Reverend Henry Newcome had founded a Society and formed a rule which had as its purpose the support of priests working in the growing parishes of newly industrialised cities . |
| 23 | If Shelley reflected the feelings of many of his contemporaries there was good reason why this should have been so . |
| 24 | But for most of his contemporaries it was Smith 's immense personal charm , warmth and good humour they valued most . |
| 25 | Biogeography was the principal source of Darwin 's theory of evolution , but to most of his contemporaries it seemed obvious that the starting point for any investigation of the history of life on earth must be the fossil record . |
| 26 | Yet it must be stressed that in the eyes of Frederick and most of his contemporaries his rule was never a crude despotism . |
| 27 | Like many of his contemporaries he was bowled over by the charismatic personality of Eleutherios Venizelos , the Greek politician . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that to his contemporaries he seemed , for much of his reign , the outstanding example of a modern and enlightened ruler . |
| 29 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 30 | His sojourn there was brief , because in January 1648 he was active in promoting the Leveller ‘ Smithfield ’ petition . |