Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shared with his sister a dislike of the future Empress , a dislike which in his case was exacerbated by the fact that Eugénie , by producing an heir , effectively removed his hopes of succeeding to the throne . |
| 2 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 3 | Now that he had started , he threw his sister a challenging look and rushed on . |
| 4 | If Felipe de Santis had his eyes on his sister a little more he would see what was happening . |
| 5 | Looking up , he gave his sister a faint smile . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's right , ’ Jeff piped up , throwing his sister a soothing glance . |
| 7 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 8 | Her party included the President of the British Military Order of Malta Lord Craigmyle , and Lady Craigmyle ; and the Honorary President of the OMV Maj.-General Viscount Monckton of Brenchley , and Viscountess Monckton ; and his sister the Hon. |
| 9 | His land in England , together with that of Bishop Ulf 's , was divided between Harold , the eldest son of Earl Godwin , and his sister the Queen , who had been retrieved from her convent . |
| 10 | Encouraged by his enthusiasm the people of Deogarh had given every rupee and paisa they could find to raise the share capital for the co-operative . |
| 11 | Within a week the king had nominated as his successor a member of one of the greatest royal administrative families in England , Thomas II , a nephew of the Thomas who had consecrated Anselm . |
| 12 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 13 | To avoid any more personal suffering I say he should contemplate going now to give his successor the chance to build a proper team to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 14 | In the later years of Henry VIII and in the reign of his successor the practice of selling seems to have grown and prices to have risen . |
| 15 | And we just pulled his Shove a bit of bind back of his leg , tied it up together , stopped the bleeding , shoved him out . |
| 16 | Instead , he called his resignation a victory for ‘ squalid reporting ’ and accused the Press of having ‘ sordid appetites ’ . |
| 17 | Following the announcement of his resignation the Levi and Shamir camps entered into negotiations , eventually resulting in the April 5 compromise . |
| 18 | In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion . |
| 19 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
| 20 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 21 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 22 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 23 | He had tried to cast her from his mind , to drive from his heart the spell she had cast over him , but it was no use . |
| 24 | It was probably a combination of the moonlight and the girl but what-ever it was , the man who went on to become world-famous singing star Frankie Vaughan says she stole his heart the instant he saw her . |
| 25 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 26 | For reasons best known to the RAAF at the time , they started cutting back on pilots and offered his course a transfer to the RAF . |
| 27 | He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit . |
| 28 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |
| 29 | You will certainly have to show him and his writer every stage of the job so that they have the opportunity to make colour corrections and spot spelling mistakes . |
| 30 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |