Example sentences of "his friend ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the ridiculous fakes which my father always found even in the best books , he thought that the publication of his collection would be the best defence and illustration of his friend 's genius . |
| 2 | On hearing his friend 's predictions , Bouvard runs away in terror . |
| 3 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 4 | He put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and grinned widely as they started off . |
| 5 | Cornelius put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and the two gazed off towards the lands of the east , wondering once more what the fates held in store for them . |
| 6 | For example , a boy under 10 years , the age of criminal responsibility , took his friend 's bicycle home and gave it to his father . |
| 7 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 8 | Suddenly this was ceasing to be solely his friend 's problem . |
| 9 | Or was Otto 's summary dismissal of his friend 's insults something to do with his feeling himself of greater social and intellectual consequence than Jean-Claude ? |
| 10 | Montrose was hard pressed to draft a reply to Lord Elphinstone , and in fact the duke took refuge in a claim of ill-health to excuse his failure to solicit his friend 's attendance at the meeting of the commissioners of supply on 17th May , 1747 . |
| 11 | Karr held his friend 's arms a moment , smiling down into his face , then he looked back at Axel . |
| 12 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 13 | He answered in some degree to his friend 's description of him , but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like . |
| 14 | Projection of another dimension or dimensions as when the sun breaks through a cloud and washing-up powder , launderette , what else was Jacob 's ladder ? he wrote , and Goldberg , staring at his friend 's manuscript all those years later , typed that in and put a little question mark in the margin of his typescript . |
| 15 | He took a slight step forward and , taking his friend 's chin in his hand , lifted his face so that Ludovico was forced to look up into his eyes . |
| 16 | Mr Utterson looked at his friend 's red , angry face . |
| 17 | We see the younger brother 's personality reflected in his friend 's portrait of this atheist mathematical economist : the stony heights and rare atmosphere in which his mind moved ; the easy efficiency of the intellectual machine which ground away beneath his broad smiling face , his bulky Johnsonian frame , and spontaneous gurgling laugh , and simplicity of feeling , and honesty of heart and mind and purpose ; and with it a common sense and practicality . |
| 18 | I had always thought him to be egotistical and attention-seeking ; but apart from mentioning his invitation to the Dukakis Inaugural , he answered modestly , even humbly : praising his friend 's work and disparaging his own . |
| 19 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 20 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 21 | He felt animated ; and then he remembered his obligation to be bedridden ; and then he wondered what Henry was saying to the analyst , and whether his friend 's loyalty and humor were visible to the man , and what was to happen next to them all . |
| 22 | He gave his friend 's name after failing a roadside breath test . |
| 23 | Gildas , smiling his crooked smile across the table and reading his friend 's thoughts , said , ‘ Do n't worry , she said very little , virtually nothing , as soon as she started to speak she decided not to . |
| 24 | Andrew 's proposal was very correct and proper , but he doubted if his friend 's thoughts were quite so pure . |
| 25 | AN EIGHT-year-old was killed in a horror accident as he was riding his friend 's bike . |
| 26 | Apparently Alfonso came to visit Richard and agreed to stand surety for his friend 's behaviour , guaranteeing that he would do nothing against the will of the Duke of Aquitaine or his father . |
| 27 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 28 | Valenzuela , holding on to the killer 's hand , dislodged his friend 's corpse . |
| 29 | His friend 's wife sat on the sofa . |
| 30 | Guy screws his friend 's wife ; the guy does n't know it , but he 's got the clap . |