Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister asked : ‘ Are they different ? ’ |
| 2 | His sister became suddenly silent . |
| 3 | At that , again , Moray and his sister waited behind . |
| 4 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 5 | Because the poison inside his sister hurt him more than her accusations ? |
| 6 | ‘ A stab in the heart leaves a hole , ’ says the proverb of a people Leonard refers to as ‘ professionals ’ when it comes to suffering and loss ; this trauma was one in which Leonard and his sister grew up . |
| 7 | Not if what his sister says is true . ’ |
| 8 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 9 | Officially he had recovered nicely from the shock of his experience , but his sister thought he needed more time : she was mothering him . |
| 10 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 11 | His sister knew , too . |
| 12 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 13 | Really all we 've got is what his sister told us when she came over . ’ |
| 14 | When he got back his sister told him . |
| 15 | He may well have asked his sister to invite Meredith . |
| 16 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 17 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 18 | And sentences ( 26 ) , even if acceptable : ( 26 ) what did his sister set the owl ? how did Liz knock her fiancè ? would give us questions not corresponding to the types of statement in ( 1 ) or ( 14 ) . |
| 19 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 20 | As the implications of the purposes of this scarecrow figure dawned on her , his sister screamed out that he was crazy , and perhaps even threw herself at him to prevent his plan . |
| 21 | Zeppelins appeared over the south coast and the first civilian war casualties were a little boy and his sister killed when a bomb destroyed their cottage at King 's Lynn . |
| 22 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 23 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 24 | He was unmarried ; his sister looked after him . |
| 25 | And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | His sister clutched his arm . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Feargal , ’ his sister whispered , ‘ you look so — elegant . |
| 28 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 29 | Roman 's deep voice held a warning edge , but his sister shrugged unrepentantly in expressive Continental impatience . |
| 30 | He wore an exceedingly white shirt with a butterfly collar , starched to a gloss like glass , and a shoe-string tie which he might never have taken off since his sister got married . |