Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last weekend , as you will know by now , we briefly overlapped with a bevy of V.C.s from British Universities and the Director-General of the British council & his wife before we left Sian . |
| 2 | The idea was that a 486 user would rush out to buy a new processor for her or his machine as they became available and this facility would mean the death of the 386 . |
| 3 | At least let me know of your address , even if you feel you can not tell the Ambassador , your uncle , or his wife where you are . |
| 4 | I had no intention of trying to explain the whereabouts of Sunil 's goods to Sunil or his henchmen until I 'd made contact with Zaria , and if she did n't come across soon there was a good chance she 'd find me hanging from a Christmas tree by the neck . |
| 5 | Ministers now fear Chancellor Norman Lamont — or his successor if he is forced to quit — will have to produce an emergency Budget . |
| 6 | This belief not only increases the beneficial effects of the specific therapy but also helps him to become more confident in general as well as in his ability to change anything about himself or his life that he does not like . |
| 7 | An individual will get far more pleasure working his chest , his abdominals or his arms because he can see the muscles working and developing . |
| 8 | SPOTTING Spotters may advise shooters of sight corrections but may touch the shooter or his equipment after he or she has started shooting |
| 9 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 10 | He has his box of matches or his lighter and he likes his pipe . |
| 11 | The practitioner should then tell the police : ‘ I will certainly contact my client , or his solicitor if he has one , and seek his permission to supply the information and , if necessary , answer your questions . ’ |
| 12 | ( 1 ) ) , and a board is not entitled to refuse his application without hearing him or his representative unless he does not attend after being duly cited ( subs . |
| 13 | They apply in cases of ( a ) inadvertence , ( b ) misadventure and ( c ) death , and empower licences to be granted to the parties in possession of the premises and objections to be considered whereby an objector himself or his representatives if he is deceased in such cases at an adjourned meeting . |
| 14 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 15 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 16 | If possible his face was even grimmer than his voice as he barred her exit . |
| 17 | A borrower risked more than his home if he chose the wrong lender . |
| 18 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 19 | He 's older than his years and I do n't know how much longer he can last . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ All this , ’ he adds , ‘ apropos of the drunken caterwauling in the kitchen from J and his cronies while I am trying to read Gide 's Journal on a Saturday evening . ’ |
| 21 | The prophecy that the chief Ringwraith will not fall ‘ by the hand of man ’ , and his check when he realises Dernhelm is a woman , similarly parallels the Witches ' assurance to Macbeth and his disconcertment when told ‘ Macduff was from his mother 's womb/Untimely ripped . ’ |
| 22 | But the problem facing Ted Dexter and his selectors when they meet this weekend could hardly be bigger . |
| 23 | He phoned me and his grandmother but we were out . |
| 24 | They had to tell the dairyman and his wife that they were planning to marry . |
| 25 | I came with my son and his wife and we were all given a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 27 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 28 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 29 | Since that time I have come to know him and his wife and I can vouch that together they will be first class first citizens of and the office of the Lord Mayorality will continue to be respected and dignified and enhanced by their terms of office . |
| 30 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |