Example sentences of "his [det] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woolmer used his many South African contacts to obtain Smith a winter job with a coloured club in Cape Town . |
| 2 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 3 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 4 | Welsh international Russell Wiseman , who has graduated from the schoolboy ranks in Mold to become a key player with Boughton Hall , links up again with his former Mold team-mates wicketkeeper Brian Williams and the most prolific wicket taker in North Wales this year , Nigel Morris . |
| 5 | The extra time allowed Pat Lam to score an important try for New Zealand against his former Western Samoa teammates , prompting unsuccessful demands for a replay . |
| 6 | Pat Lam back in New Zealand colours as one of his former Western Samoan teammates hurtles in to tackle him during their recent Hong Kong Sevens quarter-final . |
| 7 | Boro players were stunned by Lee 's about-turn — especially his former Charlton team-mate Andy Peake . |
| 8 | While his former Ibrox team-mates bask in the glory of European Cup conflict , Johnston has slipped into obscurity on Merseyside after starting only four games this season . |
| 9 | That 's the shock verdict from his former Ibrox team-mate , veteran goalkeeper Dave McKellar . |
| 10 | Now he is 44 and something of a veteran in a championship where only his former Ibrox colleague , Tommy McLean , has lasted in the same job for longer . |
| 11 | He has also seen Des Walker , his former England and Forest team-pal , become an instant millionaire with a £1.5million close-season move to Italy to join Sampdoria . |
| 12 | On the day Wright , awash with goals since his £2.5 million move across London , came face to face with his former Crystal Palace colleagues it was left to Merson to emphasise that Arsenal are playing like champions a little too late to worry Manchester United and Leeds . |
| 13 | STEVE Coppell is backing a post-Gary Lineker England attack of David Hirst and his former Crystal Palace star Ian Wright . |
| 14 | His former Sunderland boss has yet to appoint a right-hand man at Bristol City . |
| 15 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 16 | Bobby rejoined his former Swindon boss , Bert head , at Selhurst Park and became a prominent member of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | CONTRACTS have been signed for Glenn McCrory to challenge for his former IBF cruiserweight title in Moscow . |
| 18 | CONTRACTS have been signed for Glenn McCrory to challenge for his former IBF cruiserweight title in Moscow . |
| 19 | In the resulting confrontation the threat of Kim withdrawing his former RDP members from the DLP was eventually sufficient to force Roh to side with him . |
| 20 | THE long legs of Gary Pallister denied his former Middlesbrough team-mates the chance of Wembley glory last night . |
| 21 | The former Scottish RU international , listed at £230,000 , joins his former Widnes boss Doug Laughton as part of a swap deal which will take scrum-half Bobby Goulding and prop Steve Molloy to Naughton Park . |
| 22 | His former Coronation Street co-star was n't in evidence when Roy 's stage play Feed had its premiere in Bolton , Lancs , this week . |
| 23 | His former Karabakh Committee colleagues Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Vazguen Manukyan were now President and Prime Minister respectively of Armenia [ see p. 37664 ] . |
| 24 | JOHN HENDRIE aims to heap more misery on his former Leeds colleague Vinnie Jones at Ayresome Park today . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 26 | — DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 27 | Mr Guthrie reckons that he and his former Mecca team will be able to bring the new company to the stock market in about two years . |
| 28 | It also noted comments by Gorbachev , quoted in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya , that he was retaining as an adviser his former CPSU politburo ally Aleksandr Yakovlev . |
| 29 | Harrogate 's in-form Jim Love and his former Yorkshire team mate Colin Johnson will find the bone hard wicket at Clifton Park to their liking while York 's batsmen , with Alex Backhouse back in action after illness , will need to produce high scores . |
| 30 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |