Example sentences of "his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 2 | Before his sister should her body stoop |
| 3 | ‘ And because of Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ went on his sister . |
| 4 | ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school . |
| 5 | ‘ And I shall telephone Margot , ’ said his sister . |
| 6 | Henry ran his hands through his hair in a gesture of excitement that his sister would have recognized well . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I rang his sister from a public phone box . |
| 11 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 12 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 13 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 14 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 15 | The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant … |
| 16 | Next thing his sister , about 13 or so , came round . |
| 17 | He 's in here with his sister and another brother . |
| 18 | He told his sister how it was impossible to listen , and how he felt compelled to pull horrible nervous faces all the time . |
| 19 | When he played tennis with his sister , he would infuriate her by wandering off the court to contemplate . |
| 20 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 21 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 22 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 23 | He glanced at Bardsley , a fair rabbity man , like his sister but less well-favoured , and he observed his suit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Its hero , Sya , is a crippled Iranian soldier who arrives in London with his sister , Sohy , seeking medical treatment . |
| 26 | Thus Sya , who announces that ‘ one who believes in war believes in God ’ and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's abandoned everyone else in his life , from his mother and father and his sister , three wives and hundreds of girlfriends , to his acting coach . |
| 28 | A letter from Charles Carne dated 27 February 1707 to his sister who had married ‘ William of the Ley ’ reads , ‘ My poor sister , the last Brydges of the Ley is dead . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 30 | His sister Alice followed suit in a slightly less glittery way on the adjoining estate she had bought at Eythrope . |