Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |
| 2 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 3 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 4 | Ya'acov Friedler , interned with his sister on the Isle of Man , remembers the first signs of the change of heart towards enemy aliens : |
| 5 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 6 | Why do I feel so old ? y I was his sister in the story , why do If eel so old , so cold ? |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | He squatted to take his sister by the shoulder and rouse her ; she was groggy , she could barely lift her eyelids to look at him , but when she saw who it was , she wrapped her arms around him , and pressed her head to his chest . |
| 10 | Michael went to take Maria from Paddy and Sean took his sister by the arm . |
| 11 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 12 | The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 embodied his division of the world between them along a not-very-precisely defined meridian line running about 45° West . |
| 13 | Nor is it only in science where problems arise ; Dewey 's assumptions in politics , philosophy , economics , and religion , are typically western/racist/capitalist/Christian ; and his division of the arts into " Fine " and " Applied " has caused many a pottery teacher to gnash his teeth . |
| 14 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 15 | His hope of a return to the frontline of European golf has been replaced by the prospect of joining the job queue in his native North East . |
| 16 | He sees his university as an embryo of the future . |
| 17 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 18 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
| 19 | His sojourn in the car was simply to assure himself the messenger boy responded to the given description and had not been followed . |
| 20 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 21 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 22 | For decades yet , whether it be in Newcastle , London , Los Angeles , Sydney or wherever , I fully expect to see , or hear of , his rising from the audience at the end of someone 's lecture with ‘ I just happen to have this slide here , which illustrates … |
| 23 | She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor . |
| 24 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |
| 25 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
| 26 | Roland told his half-truth about his bit of a letter , not saying when or where he had come across it . |
| 27 | The Brooke case is made gracefully enough , not least by Mr Brooke himself , asked to reply to his bit of the debate . |
| 28 | HOW apt that party-changing Dr David Owen is to do his bit for the Tories now — having been sent to Serbia by the Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The real bitch is being the first to know but choosing to swallow his flimsy excuses and his transparent lies , in the hope that he 'll tire of his bit on the side and the threat , if unchallenged , will pass . |
| 30 | The music had sounded exactly like all other music he had ever heard , and the intervals between Louise Müller 's appearances had been rather tedious , but the display of her charms had provided more than adequate compensation for the occasional ennui Lefevre had enjoyed it even more , expressing his enthusiasm at the end by shouting , ‘ Bravo ! ’ standing , and clapping his hands above his head . |