Example sentences of "his [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie could n't understand his sister 's PS : ‘ Where will you live when you get back to the East End ? ’ |
| 2 | He was not the man who had destroyed his sister 's life . |
| 3 | Amal 's brother , fearful of severe punishment for using drugs , did not step forward to clear his sister 's name . |
| 4 | his sister 's name |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oscar Jekyll ( in A House and Its Head ) cheerfully acquiesced in his sister 's marriage with a divorced man , and Ernest Bellamy ( in Men and Wives ) divorced one woman and was preparing to marry another . |
| 7 | Unquestionably , if either Richard or John had married her , it would have added plausibility to Philip 's claim that this vital territory was his sister 's marriage portion and , as such , might one day be returned to France . |
| 8 | ‘ So Dr Russell is professionally involved in his sister 's case as an endocrine specialist ? ’ she went on quickly . |
| 9 | His sister 's afterbirth was in the road — and the time they had getting it away ! ’ |
| 10 | Patsy was horrified when he saw his sister 's hair . |
| 11 | Bal Kundra , who runs the cafe next to the funeral parlour , said he saw Murrell at his sister 's home four months ago . |
| 12 | Among them , only Davide joined in the singing with his rich , sweetly melodious voice , underscoring with its surprising deep timbre the quavery piping of his sister 's soprano . |
| 13 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 14 | All night Gustave watched beside his sister 's corpse : she lying in her white wedding-dress , he sitting and reading Montaigne . |
| 15 | ridiculous in blue shorts and his sister 's jumper . |
| 16 | ‘ Himself ca n't hear , Maggie , ’ said Finn , putting his arms around his sister 's waist from behind . |
| 17 | You are his sister 's child . ’ |
| 18 | Her brother Charles remembers his sister 's transformation . |
| 19 | He told us once his sister 's girl had married a Frenchman . ’ |
| 20 | Aubrey , meanwhile , was perched on the edge of his sister 's bed while she sat at her dressing-table , twisting her head in front of the triple mirror as she tried to place two matching clips in her hair . |
| 21 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 22 | Laura remains the victim of her mother 's shortcomings but Tom escapes Amanda 's clutches and the spiritual impoverishment of low-income urban American life to become a poet and to sublimate his sister 's suffering and enshrine her fragility in his writings . |
| 23 | ‘ But the squire found out and chopped his sister 's head off , which made her change into a baby rabbit . |
| 24 | Many grammatical processes involving re-ordering of constituents are ruled out for semantic reasons , particularly those whose semantic function is to highlight a specific semantic constituent : thus , What John pulled was his sister 's leg has no idiomatic reading , whereas What John did was pull his sister 's leg , which leaves the idiom ‘ physically ’ intact , has . |
| 25 | Many grammatical processes involving re-ordering of constituents are ruled out for semantic reasons , particularly those whose semantic function is to highlight a specific semantic constituent : thus , What John pulled was his sister 's leg has no idiomatic reading , whereas What John did was pull his sister 's leg , which leaves the idiom ‘ physically ’ intact , has . |
| 26 | John pulled his sister 's leg . |
| 27 | John tugged at his sister 's leg . |
| 28 | Any megastar George has just one word to describe his sister 's debut — ‘ Excellent ’ . |
| 29 | That she was here beside him now , instead of his sister 's nurse ? |
| 30 | Inevitably they took out their frustrations on Ellie and ‘ Patsy ’ , as they had nick-named their youngest brother , leaving it to him to remember his sister 's bottle when the others had left her crying , or to make endless attempts to keep her amused . |