Example sentences of "his [noun sg] ['s] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |
| 3 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 4 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 5 | Lord Campbell — 46-year-old brother of the Duke of Argyll — had tried to ignore his ex-wife 's antics since they divorced within months of marrying in 1974 . |
| 6 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 7 | Even so , Police Constable Clifford nearly hit her , and it was only by a combination of his skill and the excellent condition of his car 's brakes that he was able to stop a fraction of a second before knocking her down . |
| 8 | At all events a Council of War , called by Durand , decided that ‘ the castle being not tenable , it is for His Majesty 's service that it be abandoned ’ . |
| 9 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 10 | He felt every motion of tongue and tooth in play upon him , his prick particularized by her appetite , becoming vast in his mind 's eye until it was his body 's size : a veiny torso and a blind head lying on the bed of his belly wet from end to end , straining and shuddering , while she , the darkness , swallowed him utterly . |
| 11 | He can not accept that he was created by God because this would prove that his power lies in his enemy 's hands and it would be ludicrous to revolt for he would ultimately be revolting against himself . |
| 12 | Dexter smiled to himself as he imagined his boss 's grimace when she saw herself described in the Mirror as ‘ Scotland Yard 's female supersleuth ’ . |
| 13 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 14 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 15 | Er er he tried one time , he 'd got his daddy 's photograph and he was actually trying to draw his father from the photograph |
| 16 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 17 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 18 | I said it was interesting how Rossetti buried his poems in his wife 's grave because he was so upset . |
| 19 | Now he hoped he had found a fatal flaw in his wife 's plans and they could , as usual , spend the summer holiday with his mother in Dorset . |
| 20 | ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director . |
| 21 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 22 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 23 | Her husband had just finished the day 's work at his butcher 's shop and they were settling down to supper . |
| 24 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 25 | Peter had been trying to prove they should have left him behind ; it had been his father 's idea that he should go , needing the practice if he was ever to go hunting . |
| 26 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 27 | Robert had merely enlarged and refined his father 's scheme until it embraced a world . |
| 28 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 29 | Sometimes he imagines the little knot of concentration between his father 's eyebrows as he reads the letter aloud , and his mother 's smile hidden behind her hand . |
| 30 | He visited his father 's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault . |