Example sentences of "with his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visiting me in hospital , hot foot from the Middle East , with his Brigadier 's tabs and row of medals , he stroked his moustache and said in crisp tones , ‘ Pity you had n't got a bit more promotion , boy . |
| 2 | Even with his poacher 's stealth , his mother always heard him enter the house and he did n't feel like explanations tonight . |
| 3 | He collects a motley crew of musicians and singers , drunken Deco , Dean with his uncle 's sax , Billy , who has to have his drums redeemed from the pawnbrokers , Joey ‘ The Lips ’ Fagan , and the girls Imelda , Natalie and Bernie . |
| 4 | Born John Fiott , he changed his name to Lee in 1815 in compliance with his uncle 's will . |
| 5 | Debbie 's tycoon father Paul Raymond , 67 , is trying to come to terms with his daughter 's death . |
| 6 | A seventy-two-year-old boot and shoe maker living with his daughter 's family in Outram 's Yard had the splendid name of Euclid Shufflebottom . |
| 7 | Its dynamism and success in its early stages owed much to Derek Morrell , a civil servant in the effective reforming tradition of Morant , who died in 1969 with his life 's work sadly incomplete . |
| 8 | More than 500 people took part in the contest and Tom Stammer , head of the team , said he was delighted with his squad 's performance . |
| 9 | The worker is now taken up with his boss 's needs . |
| 10 | It tells of a lowly and insignificant civil servant Poprischin , who falls in love with his boss 's beautiful daughter Sophie . |
| 11 | Poole told me that some people were also shocked because John , in his role as the Devil , ‘ disguised himself as a girl in point shoes , a tutu and a blonde wig , with his devil 's horns showing through ’ . |
| 12 | Ram deities included Herishef of Heracleopolis , who temporarily became a state god in the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties , and Khnum of Elephantine , the creator with his potter 's wheel . |
| 13 | Robson , who established his managerial reputation at Portman Road , could not be happier with his ex-club 's success under John Lyall and Mick McGiven . |
| 14 | At Van Gogh in England , an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery ( until May 4 ) , we see the young art dealer drinking in the culture Pissarro had rejected and falling in love with the black-and-white prints of the Social Realists and with his landlady 's daughter , the stern young Eugenie Loyer . |
| 15 | A businessman walks into a bank armed with his day 's takings , hands them to the cashier , then leaves . |
| 16 | Firstly , and not surprisingly , there was a biography of The New York Dolls ( he had then begun to run The Hew York Dolls fan club ) , then a strange existential affair entitled ‘ James Dean Is Dead ’ which dealt with his hero 's problems with the spoils of success . |
| 17 | where , with his footballer 's perm neatly slicked |
| 18 | Colin Pearson with his officer 's shako plate , 18812–16 |
| 19 | Sue Owen , director of nursing , said : ‘ He had a short time away with his consultant 's permission . |
| 20 | He rammed in the pitch , keeping his balance in the tossing pirogue , as only he could , he with his funambulist 's antennae , who might have scaled the ship on a free-floating ladder if it had been a parade , a feast , a time of play and rejoicing . |
| 21 | Between the sheets with his friend 's wife , or desperately trying to beat his latest computer game , Cameron is horrified to realise he — cool Colley — is suspect number one in the hunt for a serial killer . |
| 22 | She was accompanied by the augmented Northern Sinfonia , conducted by Richard Bonynge , whose empathy with his wife 's interpretations is legendary . |
| 23 | The tone of voice revealed the intensity of his disgust , not just with his wife 's snores , but with her physicality as such . |
| 24 | In contrast , Clive repressed all his earlier yearnings for closeness , but continued to express the old protest in his detached manner to all and sundry , and in his constant irritation with his wife 's agoraphobia and anxiety as to his whereabouts . |
| 25 | He had asked the hotel for some black coffee before they set off and the management , knowing he was a doctor and that their sudden departure had something to do with his wife 's health , had been accommodating . |
| 26 | With his wife 's help , he did quit . |
| 27 | The Calvinist William had no sympathy with his wife 's High Church Anglicanism . |
| 28 | If , for example , a man was known as ‘ Father of James ’ the probability was that he lived with his wife 's people and dutifully avoided his mother-in-law in the appointed manner . |
| 29 | Despite the designedly conciliatory Anglo-Scottish marriage , James had not remained long at peace with his wife 's brother . |
| 30 | Mr Molesworth ( Sid ) was also intimidated by Lydia and allied himself with his wife 's question . |