Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was unmarried ; his sister looked after him . |
| 2 | He and his sister went into Lower Six and contemplated the train set in silence . |
| 3 | His sister came to England in July , and they went to the Isle of Wight together for a little over three weeks . |
| 4 | He says he can remember he was burnt in the fire and that his sister died in the fire . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm bleeding again , Tom , ’ his sister said without preamble . |
| 6 | ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her . |
| 7 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
| 8 | and his sister married to Joe Gardurey , is bringing him up and she resents him . |
| 9 | He looked after the little girl throughout the journey , everyone , including the Gestapo guards , assuming that it was his sister nestling in his lap . |
| 10 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 11 | She hated to think of his sister lying in hospital waiting for her husband to come to her while all the time he was with Dana . |
| 12 | When his sister emigrated to Israel , the Movement introduced a visitor who called in once or twice every week . |
| 13 | Murrell , 26 , a former undertaker , is a regular visitor at the flat in Sutton , Surrey , where his sister lives with her common-law husband and their three children . |
| 14 | It was interesting too , she realised , that he 'd never allowed his sister to dispose of them either . |
| 15 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 16 | However , his policies led to his being condemned by Schumacher as ‘ the Chancellor of the Allies ’ . |
| 17 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |
| 18 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 19 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 20 | With an engineer 's interest in how all these tiny ‘ bones ’ had fitted together , Miller had gone far beyond his contemporaries dealing with less complex fossils , who drew in with dotted lines parts missing in their specimen . |
| 21 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 22 | His contemporaries spoke of " Charles 's kingdom ( regnum ) " , and distinguished within it peoples and regna : Francia , Burgundy , Gothia ( or Septimania ) and Aquitaine . |
| 23 | Which was their sort of way of making fun of you because you were showing off which is what a native Orcadian thinks any of his contemporaries talking in English to anyone other than an English person . |
| 24 | A carbon-fibre brake disc shattered as he slowed from high speed , and his McLaren crashed into a guard rail . |
| 25 | Our first Secretary of State for National Heritage had spent his Easter hols at the Lucerne festival , where the London Symphony Orchestra ( last year 's Arts Council grants : over £1 million ) proved its world-class rank with a ‘ peerless ’ Mahler One . |
| 26 | Moore has found his creativity hampered by his record company 's commercial values . |
| 27 | Which was when the other horse got to Hullabaloo 's quarters , a big , handsome bay , his bit covered in a white froth , his nostrils wide and red , and his eye set fast on the forthcoming obstacle . |
| 28 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 29 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 30 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |