Example sentences of "his [det] [conj] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not take a decision on his own that his team does not respect , so colleagues find him caring and tolerant . |
| 2 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 3 | He had no family of his own and his gratitude to the McGuires knew no bounds . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , despite his vital if sometimes reluctantly assumed role in maintaining the norms of society , the psychiatrist is often in danger of under-valuing the weight of the social pressures bearing on his patient and of assuming ethnocentrically that his own and his society 's moral standards enjoy universal validity . |
| 5 | Henry III imitated French royal tombs in his own and his queen 's effigies , and the introduction of ‘ weepers ’ on to the side of tomb-chests followed a pattern established thirty years earlier in France . |
| 6 | Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , on March 14 threatened his own and his government 's resignation after his name was cited during exchanges in the Congress of People 's Deputies in connection with a recently discovered scandal centring on a plot illegally to export Soviet battle tanks to the West . |
| 7 | At a Fabian fringe meeting , Andrew Neil , editor of The Sunday Times and executive chairman of Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television , made a speech , of course in his own and his boss 's interest , which had a sense and vigour that the conference platform could dearly do with . |
| 8 | Hoc 's fever began to return halfway through the task , and Dong ran frantically back and forth between their adjoining rows , working his own and his brother 's trees while Hoc rested . |
| 9 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |
| 10 | I hat was foolish , for it meant the Frenchman would have to make his sabre cut across his own and his horse 's body . |
| 11 | I had spent many happy hours with Frank , recording details not generally known to the public of his own and his father 's involvement with the BCR . |
| 12 | Louis then took the occasion of the summer assembly at Attigny " with the counsel of bishops and magnates " to perform public penance " for his own and his father 's misdeeds " . |
| 13 | By means of regression it is possible to take such a man back to one of those occasions when his own and his partner 's mutual desires had culminated in a very happy and successful sexual encounter for them both . |
| 14 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |