Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 2 | He tried several times to talk to his sister Laetitia on the telephone , but she continued to be elusive . |
| 3 | Although the younger woman has been taken to be a likeness of his sister Wil by many biographers , misled by an ambiguous comment of Vincent 's , Tralbaut sees in it a close resemblance to Kee . |
| 4 | His sister Wil was going to Haarlem , and then to Amsterdam . |
| 5 | He went to Haarlem and spent time with his sister Wil , walking about with her but not confiding anything . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Eadwine 's overtures to Eadbald for the hand of his sister Aethelburh ( HE 11 , 9 ) suggest a northern ruler already prestigious in his own right . |
| 7 | When she had calmed down , Grandfather Denknetzeyan took his sister Katya away from Villa Destayala . |
| 8 | Her brothers all smoked yet when Mickey had seen his sister smoking he had snatched the cigarette from her hand , grinding it out with his heel , shouting at her that only dags smoked . |
| 9 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 10 | His sister Dolly and our Etty are the best of friends . |
| 11 | Tarquinian Ambassador and his sister Ch. |
| 12 | It is pointless telling a toddler that if he does not hit his sister Mummy will play with him tomorrow . |
| 13 | She passed the cobbler 's shop where Paccy Moore and his sister Bee waved out to her . |
| 14 | That he later troubled to marry his sister Estrith to Richard 's successor Robert ( see below ) probably also implies that his wife 's cooperation was not alone thought sufficient . |
| 15 | Matthew Cuthbert lived with his sister Marilla on their farm on Prince Edward Island in Canada . |
| 16 | Rubberneck , on his part — he saw his sister gloat over the suitcase , the bits of coloured paper — well , he preferred that she gloated ; it was a rest , his knees on the hard floor , that they knelt in endless prayer . |
| 17 | Roman power was declining generally , but it was still strong in Zurich , and the beheading of Felix and his sister Regula , two Christians , was ordered by the governor . |
| 18 | But following his hope GP at Assen last June , Zeelenburg 's fortunes took a spectacular turn for the worse . |
| 19 | Vic , 44 , had just finished a £12-ahead meal with six workers from his typesetting firm when he ordered the doubles . |
| 20 | The famous explorer Mogridge is seen by his university friend Duncan Patullo as , in fact , an overgrown schoolboy : |
| 21 | But it 's the working with them , you know , you 've got to try and work with them , he 's got to go round may be every five minutes and make sure they 've put it out , otherwise he 's going to stand there doing his university work . |
| 22 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 23 | It 's his university education you know — it tells , it tells . |
| 24 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 25 | Her parents did not seem to mind that he had no qualifications and had not finished his university course . |
| 26 | Marivate told him how and why he had stood firmly for Moral Re-Armament through his university course . |
| 27 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 28 | The 24 year old student had only started his university course this year . |
| 29 | Chris was chairman of his university society and competed regularly in Inter Varsity Dancing Association competitions around the country , helping to win last year 's team competition and coming third individually in the Rock and Roll competition . |
| 30 | Though he did not like Stych much — too stuck up by far with his university degree and his oilmen friends — he hoped that Hank had not stolen the money for the car . |