Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be on the veranda , Tom , ’ she murmured , and he and his sister both nodded . |
| 3 | Soon he realized that he could wound with words , teasing his sister mercilessly . |
| 4 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 5 | His sister already has severe symptoms . |
| 6 | He had got restlessly to his feet and was leaning over the green wooden railing that came to waist height at the edge of the veranda , but after a suppressed exclamation he wheeled to face his sister again . |
| 7 | ‘ Really ? ’ replied his sister icily . |
| 8 | ‘ Would you also be surprised to hear that Froggy Davies had given his sister nearly two thousand pounds in cash ? ’ |
| 9 | As Beth had reminded the boy on more than one occasion , his sister also had lost her parents , and the home she had been raised in . |
| 10 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 11 | I just felt like his sister sometimes . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , what you reckon Joy I did it cos we went to see his sister yesterday , cos he 's only got one sister so we go and see her , see her regular and , she 's not all that good is she in health ? |
| 13 | His sister gently |
| 14 | Madeleine , Aubrey thought — although he was far too loyal to his sister ever to say so to anyone — was vain , egotistical and spoilt . |
| 15 | The condition of his sister still playing on his mind , young Jefferies had fled , saying nothing to anyone until he had read of the seriousness of the crime . |
| 16 | Trevor goes to see his sister about once a month . |
| 17 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 18 | The the He was the old teacher and he and his sister never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 19 | Knowing his sister so well , he was aware that despite her denial , her decision to abandon the idea of marriage to Harry had already been made . |
| 20 | It was the same thing , his sister then , his father now , Georgia walking towards a beating in the school yard , Dad fighting for breath in his red chair , he wanted to save them , only he could do it , who else was there , but he had n't , he could n't , not really , but the wanting to , the failure to , you could n't get away from that . |
| 21 | His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation . |
| 22 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1962 , however , he began to shift his policies away from outright repression and towards a gradual reformism , summed up in the slogan , Those who are not against us are with us . |
| 25 | His real style , they believe , is authoritarian and his policies excessively sympathetic to the armed forces . |
| 26 | The astonished porter disposes of this body as the previous one , but returns for his payment only to find , apparently , the corpse waiting for him again . |
| 27 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 28 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 29 | When the Oxford academic Henry Foulis declared in 1671 that ‘ Treason [ is ] the sign of the true Roman religion ’ , he was expressing an opinion that the great majority of his contemporaries still accepted without question . |
| 30 | Ayrton Senna , Prost 's most serious contender for the title , was fourth fastest in his McLaren ahead of Michael Schumacher in a Benetton , while the luckless Berger was sixth quickest . |