Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oscar Jekyll ( in A House and Its Head ) cheerfully acquiesced in his sister 's marriage with a divorced man , and Ernest Bellamy ( in Men and Wives ) divorced one woman and was preparing to marry another . |
| 3 | ‘ So Dr Russell is professionally involved in his sister 's case as an endocrine specialist ? ’ she went on quickly . |
| 4 | ‘ Himself ca n't hear , Maggie , ’ said Finn , putting his arms around his sister 's waist from behind . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the plan is too wide for a tragedy-centred book even on Nietzsche 's terms , and , as such , it is certainly a piece of evidence in favour of his sister 's postulate of a full-scale book about Greece . |
| 6 | Having left Sydney in April , he finally hit London in September , and moved into a flat in his sister 's house in Clarendon Road off Holland Park . |
| 7 | Still in severe pain , Mick 's off work for at least a week , while he recovers at his sister 's house in Moredon . |
| 8 | Matthew , 18 , an electronics engineer , was fitting an alarm in his sister 's car outside the family home in Eton Wick , Berkshire , on Saturday when he heard screams . |
| 9 | Alexander II 's nationalism was outweighed by his successor 's fear of revolution . |
| 10 | Gundobad 's importance was further enhanced when Ricimer died , for he took over his mentor 's position at court . |
| 11 | McCarty-Cooper soon gave up decorating , and began to sell his mentor 's collection in order to support an extravagant lifestyle . |
| 12 | It would probably please him if she went to prison , because then she would be out of his hair , and he would be free to amuse himself to his heart 's content with his pretty , blue-eyed doll . |
| 13 | And she hoped he had answered freely , fortuitously , and had found his heart 's desire at the end of the road . |
| 14 | Mr Michael Howard , the Water minister , wore a broad smile as he watched his mistress 's vision of a share-owning democracy lining up . |
| 15 | ‘ But you are not His Excellency 's sort at all , ’ she said seriously . |
| 16 | His greatest concern was that I should be strong and brave , good at games , good at work , and that he should get his money 's worth from my education . |
| 17 | He could see Lucier waiting behind the pageant in his serpent 's costume for his cue to emerge from the Mouth of Hell and tempt Eve with the forbidden fruit . |
| 18 | His chairman 's address to the Institute 's north-west section on ‘ The Discovery of Polythene ’ became no. 1 in the RIC lecture series ( 1964 ) . |
| 19 | DENIS SMITH took his ailing Bristol City side to Italy for today 's Anglo-Italian Cup clash with Cremonese aware that he scorns his chairman 's hobby-horse at his peril . |
| 20 | Hoskyns called on the great man in his chairman 's office at Tube Investments . |
| 21 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 22 | Mr. Croucher was giving his chairman 's report at Monday 's meeting in the Church Centre . |
| 23 | At the time of invoicing , by drawing a bill on his overseas buyer which is payable say ‘ 90 days from sight ’ an exporter will have an acknowledgement of the debt by obtaining his buyer 's acceptance of the bill . |
| 24 | CRISANTO ESPANA , the Belfast-based Venezuelan WBA welterweight champion , was unable to receive his victor 's belt at a scheduled awards ceremony in Caracas last night because it was stolen at gunpoint from a boxing official . |
| 25 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about his Ministry 's contribution to the citizens charter . |
| 26 | Preparations for Gould 's visit to his brother-in-law 's station at Yarrundi had to be made , and it would be at least three days before Gould could escape the streets of Sydney to resume his ‘ favourite pursuits ’ . |
| 27 | Even Ron Barton of the True Brit , the paper which the Saatchi Brothers claimed had taken the heat out of the Sun , had moved into his brother-in-law 's house in Kemp Town ‘ for the duration ’ . |
| 28 | It is important that the rider does not collapse in the forward swing and so rely on his horse 's beck for support . |
| 29 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the progress of studies affecting his Department 's employment in south Dorset . |