Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced at Bardsley , a fair rabbity man , like his sister but less well-favoured , and he observed his suit . |
| 2 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 3 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 4 | The first reference to the young gentleman is found in Lord Keith 's private correspondence in October 1797 , when the admiral complained to his sister that he was ‘ plagued with Adam Ross . |
| 5 | I want to know what made her stay in the face of my behaviour , what made her help his sister when anyone else would have left her to look a fright on her wedding day … ’ |
| 6 | There was no point in asking him to practise on his parents or his sister as , although still in evidence , his stammer was far less noticeable with members of his own family . |
| 7 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 8 | Do you wish to compete or do you not ? ’ he grated , turning to keep his eyes on his sister as she circled him expertly . |
| 9 | When , however , he observes the female genitals , of his sister or playmate , the threat of castration suddenly appears real . |
| 10 | ‘ Sure it was n't his sister or something ? ’ |
| 11 | Did he want her to look after his sister or not ? |
| 12 | Adam later added that Eric was allied with Boleslav of Poland , having married his sister or daughter , and that the Danes were attacked by Slavs and Swedes . |
| 13 | He 's in here with his sister and another brother . |
| 14 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 15 | Pip is sent by his sister and Uncle Pumblechook to ‘ play ’ at Miss Havisham 's , where he falls in love with the haughty young Estella . |
| 16 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 17 | After a while Bambi and Nell returned alone , and Bambi with an unexcited word of gratitude to Nell walked a few paces forward and stopped beside her son , who had done nothing to comfort or help his sister and was now sitting alone . |
| 18 | His sister and brother-in-law had left about 2.00 a.m . |
| 19 | Although Valentin seems to have passed his exams by his own efforts ( though no doubt crammed by special tutors ) and achieved a respectable degree at Imperial College , London , his sister and brother followed their mother 's educational model more closely . |
| 20 | Certainly , the sort of rumours and gossip which were common about his sister and brother were not attached to him . |
| 21 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 22 | SHOW-OFF driver Neville Swales played ‘ chicken ’ once too often on an automatic level-crossing — and killed himself , his sister and his bride-to-be . |
| 23 | Connolly 's mother walked out when he was four leaving him , his sister and father William — who died three years ago — to live with two aunts . |
| 24 | Another neighbour said : ‘ Simon regularly visits the flat to see his sister and the kids . |
| 25 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 26 | THE brother of Alison Manwaring yesterday called for a referendum on the death penalty after the killer of his sister and father was jailed for life . |
| 27 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 28 | She watched Mr Evans turn in his chair and look up at his sister and felt her chest tighten . |
| 29 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 30 | Eliot , together with his sister and niece , travelled up to Edinburgh on 20 August . |