Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reference to the young gentleman is found in Lord Keith 's private correspondence in October 1797 , when the admiral complained to his sister that he was ‘ plagued with Adam Ross . |
| 2 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 3 | Do you wish to compete or do you not ? ’ he grated , turning to keep his eyes on his sister as she circled him expertly . |
| 4 | Why I do n't know , but his sister and him never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 5 | Him and his sister and I think a brother and two or three of them but Jimmy was of the roving type . |
| 6 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 7 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 8 | That is yet another case of the hon. Gentleman not being able to make up his mind about his policies and he must therefore reserve the right to do precisely what is Government policy . |
| 9 | Hearing from that individual , to his great concern , of the impending calamity , Captain Cuttle , in his delicacy , sheered off again confounded ; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude , and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general , which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances , and a friendly intimation that he would " look up again " tomorrow(2) . |
| 10 | He expressed his hope that they would set up a national assembly and leadership council in exile to focus efforts around a single opposition leadership . |
| 11 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 12 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 13 | They certainly express viewpoints which find echoes among his contemporaries and they are not out of key with what we know of his character and of his piety , which was manifested in his crusading enthusiasm , the expulsion of the Jews , the Eleanor crosses , the foundation of Vale Royal abbey and his almsgiving . |
| 14 | Mary was his lieutenant and they worked together wonderfully well . |
| 15 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 16 | Their tangible presence passing over glazed tiles to where Francis had made his dive and they looked over , as the others had done , only they were n't laughing . |
| 17 | A spear squealed on the rim of his shield and he lifted his sword . |
| 18 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 19 | I 've tried to slow down my pattern of speech , I 've tried to simplify my vocabulary , and certain methods of when you 're talking to someone you do n't tower over them , you try and squat to his level or you give instructions in certain ways to certain classes . |
| 20 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 21 | Ministers now fear Chancellor Norman Lamont — or his successor if he is forced to quit — will have to produce an emergency Budget . |
| 22 | The following year I was refunded three and ninepence by his successor because I had been over-charged . |
| 23 | He offered his resignation but it was turned down by Mr Major . |
| 24 | There were renewed calls for his resignation after he was accused of failing to live up to his brief as Minister of National Heritage . |
| 25 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 26 | ‘ He has a month to hand in his resignation and he has a right to appeal to the Queen . ’ |
| 27 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 28 | He would go far , this young man , Mr Bullins considered , and he looked forward to reading of his progress once he left Oxford . |
| 29 | Injuries have interrupted his progress and he is in no mood to allow Beal to do likewise . |
| 30 | But if the expenses in question are payable out of income to which the beneficiary has already become entitled , the expenses are not a proper deduction from the beneficiary 's total income , since they represent simply the mode in which he applies his income after he has become entitled to it . |