Example sentences of "[prep] his sister 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE brother of murdered teenager Julie Dart went off the rails after his sister 's death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | Throughout his life the uncle is expected to display particular care and attention towards his sister 's son . |
| 3 | The sheer bulk of his sister 's file and the fact that her husband 's one was empty registered strongly on him . |
| 4 | On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband . |
| 5 | They lay quite still in the darkness , listening to the roar of Mr Evans 's voice and the thin squeak of his sister 's . |
| 6 | as if guessing the trend of his sister 's thoughts , Aubrey said suddenly , ‘ One of my great friends , Harry Keynes , is coming over from the United States next week , Dunbar . |
| 7 | Aubrey , meanwhile , was perched on the edge of his sister 's bed while she sat at her dressing-table , twisting her head in front of the triple mirror as she tried to place two matching clips in her hair . |
| 8 | Among them , only Davide joined in the singing with his rich , sweetly melodious voice , underscoring with its surprising deep timbre the quavery piping of his sister 's soprano . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the plan is too wide for a tragedy-centred book even on Nietzsche 's terms , and , as such , it is certainly a piece of evidence in favour of his sister 's postulate of a full-scale book about Greece . |
| 10 | He had taken over the management of his sister 's bakery . |
| 11 | He thought with pleasure of his sister 's elegant face with the skin that always had a gleam and yet was softly , darkly creamy at the same time . |
| 12 | That she was here beside him now , instead of his sister 's nurse ? |
| 13 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nobody had also said how long Marcus should remain in his sister 's house . |
| 19 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 20 | ‘ So Dr Russell is professionally involved in his sister 's case as an endocrine specialist ? ’ she went on quickly . |
| 21 | Having left Sydney in April , he finally hit London in September , and moved into a flat in his sister 's house in Clarendon Road off Holland Park . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His greatest , his only concern was to ensure that she stayed away from his sister 's husband . |
| 24 | All night Gustave watched beside his sister 's corpse : she lying in her white wedding-dress , he sitting and reading Montaigne . |
| 25 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It belongs to his sister 's family . ’ |
| 28 | But Tom did n't respond to his sister 's words . |
| 29 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 30 | I were n't gon na put myself out for them then he got up and stormed out and then he went back to his sister 's took his |