Example sentences of "his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second session Prost improved and Damon ran into brake problems which left him doing very few laps , none of which was faster than his Friday effort . |
| 2 | It was not his sort of place , this friend Mrs Shottery not his kind of person . |
| 3 | His No 1 was ‘ Mistletoe and Wine ’ — a song of his Christian testimony . |
| 4 | But what he and his No 2 Terry McDermott have achieved is a miracle . ’ |
| 5 | From his opening-day double at Crystal Palace , Shearer is very much the star of the show , with cameos from Mike Newell , Stuart Ripley and Roy Wegerle , and interviews with manager Kenny Dalglish , his No 2 Ray Harford and several of the players — including Shearer of course . |
| 6 | Most British observers will remember Subotica having a desperate run in the Coronation Cup , but things went his way yesterday although trainer Andre Fabre believed that Pat Eddery 's mount Jolypha would be his No 1 . |
| 7 | GRAEME SOUNESS last night declared that his clowning keeper Bruce Grobbelaar is still his No 1 — even though Liverpool have bought England hopeful David James . |
| 8 | SHOULDER TO LEAN ON Bradford boss Frank Stapleton is relying on his No 2 Stuart Pearson ( above ) to take over the reins when he 's out on the park ( far left ) . |
| 9 | During his teens , the newly emerging rock ‘ n ’ roll also influenced him , his favourite singers being Bill Haley , Elvis Presley , Gene Vincent , Pat Boone and Frank Sinatra , but his No 1 was Buddy Holly , who had hits with songs such as ‘ Peggy Sue ’ but died at the age of twenty in a plane crash . |
| 10 | Then in the afternoon fours game he fought back brilliantly , assisted with some great bowls from his No 3 John McLoughlin — another Games candidate — to level the match 17-17 after the stipulated 21 ends . |
| 11 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 12 | Before his sister should her body stoop |
| 13 | ‘ And because of Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ went on his sister . |
| 14 | ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school . |
| 15 | ‘ And I shall telephone Margot , ’ said his sister . |
| 16 | Henry ran his hands through his hair in a gesture of excitement that his sister would have recognized well . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 19 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 20 | I rang his sister from a public phone box . |
| 21 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 22 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 23 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 24 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 25 | The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant … |
| 26 | Next thing his sister , about 13 or so , came round . |
| 27 | He 's in here with his sister and another brother . |
| 28 | He told his sister how it was impossible to listen , and how he felt compelled to pull horrible nervous faces all the time . |
| 29 | When he played tennis with his sister , he would infuriate her by wandering off the court to contemplate . |
| 30 | 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 . |