Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister became suddenly silent . |
| 2 | At that , again , Moray and his sister waited behind . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | As the implications of the purposes of this scarecrow figure dawned on her , his sister screamed out that he was crazy , and perhaps even threw herself at him to prevent his plan . |
| 5 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 6 | And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | Roman 's deep voice held a warning edge , but his sister shrugged unrepentantly in expressive Continental impatience . |
| 8 | The door opened and his sister came in . |
| 9 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 10 | But then his sister had n't told him anything about her lover . |
| 11 | After a while they clapped , and then his sister walked on to the low platform that was surrounded by a frothy sea of pink and white azalea plants . |
| 12 | Charlie and his sister walked slowly from shop window to shop window , and he was unable to hide his excitement at every new discovery he came across . |
| 13 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 14 | His sister followed reluctantly . |
| 15 | His sister did n't need anger at the moment , and it was only his concern that had allowed it to escape . |
| 16 | His sister tried again . |
| 17 | ‘ And Jonathan Swift , ’ his sister put in . |
| 18 | ‘ I know what all the world knows , ’ his sister maintained stoutly , ‘ and that is that Fatima has always been a true wife to you . ’ |
| 19 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 20 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 21 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 22 | On the following day the president-elect met with congressional leaders from both parties and reiterated his hope to work closely with the new Congress . |
| 23 | By and large the evidence which Engels and his contemporaries saw as significant of the high status of women in primitive societies is often wrong or does not signify what it was believed to mean . |
| 24 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 25 | It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is more variety of treatment , as well as a greater display of creative power , in Monteverdi 's ‘ madrigals ’ than in the similar compositions of all his contemporaries put together . |
| 26 | But most of his contemporaries did not share his hopeful vision of ‘ good old age . ’ |
| 27 | Charles and his contemporaries did not appeal for authority to individual judgement or experience : instead they invoked shared role-models and peer-group pressure . |
| 28 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 29 | The general and his lieutenant scurry around cravenly looking for escape , but they are captured , and the Liberation Army enters acrobatically , doing cartwheels , double somersaults , and spectacular sword-play with their bayonets . |
| 30 | But a source close to the star , reveals : ‘ If his employers found out , he 'd have some serious explaining to do . |