Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [pron] " 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 | I want to know what made her stay in the face of my behaviour , what made her help his sister when anyone else would have left her to look a fright on her wedding day … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Do you wish to compete or do you not ? ’ he grated , turning to keep his eyes on his sister as she circled him expertly . |
| 5 | ‘ Sure it was n't his sister or something ? ’ |
| 6 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 7 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 8 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 9 | Marks must have retired long since but he might still be around and , on the principle that half an hour 's chat over a beer is worth a whole file of police gobbledegook , Kersey decided to enquire and found that Marks was still extant , sharing a bungalow with his sister and her husband in Newlyn . |
| 10 | His sister and her husband , forget her name . |
| 11 | Why I do n't know , but his sister and him never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 12 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 13 | In the hotel the count had merely said that they would stay with him , not with his sister and himself . |
| 14 | Him and his sister and I think a brother and two or three of them but Jimmy was of the roving type . |
| 15 | SHOW-OFF driver Neville Swales played ‘ chicken ’ once too often on an automatic level-crossing — and killed himself , his sister and his bride-to-be . |
| 16 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 17 | His body was eventually found by Isis , who was both his sister and his wife . |
| 18 | John bought everybody in his family something , for him , his mum , his sister and his dad . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | tres beau , cos there 's the living room , its like he 's got two living rooms and Richard and his sister and there 's a vid there a telly and a video in each of them , buggers |
| 21 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 22 | Economic historians have been more interested in assessing the outcome or potential of his policies than their origins . |
| 23 | He was his own man and he made this clear immediately with his policies and his plans for the future of motor sport worldwide . |
| 24 | In the ensuing debate Gorbachev found himself assailed by conservatives and radicals alike over his policies and his record . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 30 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |