Example sentences of "his [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 2 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 3 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 4 | Using his sister 's wedding funds , keyboard player Nicholas Nasmyth , 28 , joined the Enterprise Allowance in April . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Such enthusiasm , John Campbell thought wryly , taking his sister 's hand to lead her towards Abbot Kenneth standing waiting at the head of the hall . |
| 8 | Laura remains the victim of her mother 's shortcomings but Tom escapes Amanda 's clutches and the spiritual impoverishment of low-income urban American life to become a poet and to sublimate his sister 's suffering and enshrine her fragility in his writings . |
| 9 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 10 | To avoid family disgrace , his sister 's husband , then HRH the Duke of York and later to become King George V , agreed to help pay his debts , and Frank was packed off to India . |
| 11 | Any megastar George has just one word to describe his sister 's debut — ‘ Excellent ’ . |
| 12 | Oscar Jekyll ( in A House and Its Head ) cheerfully acquiesced in his sister 's marriage with a divorced man , and Ernest Bellamy ( in Men and Wives ) divorced one woman and was preparing to marry another . |
| 13 | THE brother of murdered teenager Julie Dart went off the rails after his sister 's death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 14 | Now Nick would like to hold his sister 's baby , due on her birthday on February 17 . |
| 15 | They refused to allow him to examine his sister 's file except to show him that it contained a photograph of her . |
| 16 | The sheer bulk of his sister 's file and the fact that her husband 's one was empty registered strongly on him . |
| 17 | His good spirits thus restored , Rickie seized his sister 's hand and dragged her excitedly towards the boat . |
| 18 | Matthew , 18 , an electronics engineer , was fitting an alarm in his sister 's car outside the family home in Eton Wick , Berkshire , on Saturday when he heard screams . |
| 19 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
| 20 | Bal Kundra , who runs the cafe next to the funeral parlour , said he saw Murrell at his sister 's home four months ago . |
| 21 | Amal 's brother , fearful of severe punishment for using drugs , did not step forward to clear his sister 's name . |
| 22 | His sister 's afterbirth was in the road — and the time they had getting it away ! ’ |
| 23 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 24 | ‘ But the squire found out and chopped his sister 's head off , which made her change into a baby rabbit . |
| 25 | On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband . |
| 26 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 27 | Throughout his life the uncle is expected to display particular care and attention towards his sister 's son . |
| 28 | Thus , if his sister 's son fell sick , the maternal uncle would readily sacrifice on his behalf . |
| 29 | A man 's heir is his sister 's son and the relationship is thus fraught with strains which Jack Goody sees as inevitable between property-holders and heirs ; the bond between uncle and nephew is in fact a direct counterpart of that between father and son in patrilineal societies . |
| 30 | Murimuth called it ‘ turpis pax ’ , the shameful peace ; Henry Knighton recorded that it had been made ‘ without the advice and consent of the community of the realm and the magnates ’ , and the king himself showed his disapproval by refusing to attend his sister 's wedding . |