Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be on the veranda , Tom , ’ she murmured , and he and his sister both nodded . |
| 2 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 3 | His sister already has severe symptoms . |
| 4 | As Beth had reminded the boy on more than one occasion , his sister also had lost her parents , and the home she had been raised in . |
| 5 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 6 | Madeleine , Aubrey thought — although he was far too loyal to his sister ever to say so to anyone — was vain , egotistical and spoilt . |
| 7 | The condition of his sister still playing on his mind , young Jefferies had fled , saying nothing to anyone until he had read of the seriousness of the crime . |
| 8 | The the He was the old teacher and he and his sister never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 9 | His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation . |
| 10 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
| 11 | The astonished porter disposes of this body as the previous one , but returns for his payment only to find , apparently , the corpse waiting for him again . |
| 12 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 13 | When the Oxford academic Henry Foulis declared in 1671 that ‘ Treason [ is ] the sign of the true Roman religion ’ , he was expressing an opinion that the great majority of his contemporaries still accepted without question . |
| 14 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 15 | A pupil must do his level best to please his master ( and the clerk ) if he hopes to be invited to remain . |
| 16 | It was obvious that his enthusiasm never left him time to concentrate on eating . |
| 17 | The assassination of one justice minister who published a ‘ black list ’ of big names in the drugs business and the attempted assassination of his successor clearly illustrate the power of this underground lobby . |
| 18 | ‘ I wonder why you told everyone Harbury had lost the crime job if you did n't have his successor neatly lined up ? ’ |
| 19 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 20 | It was a part of his creed never to give way to these emotions . |
| 21 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 22 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 23 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 24 | his Stetson And he stuck his shrinkfit Levis in his Fryes Well mibbe |
| 25 | He had n't thought so , but his insides still ached briefly . |
| 26 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 27 | There is an ambivalence in Genet which his critic always misread and his defenders often overlook . |
| 28 | His heart nearly stopped . |
| 29 | If you roll a double on the 2D6 roll then the Fanatic has met with an accident , wrapping the chain around his neck , or perhaps his heart just gives out and he collapses to the ground . |
| 30 | And his third year First Class results ( known at McGill as ‘ Great Distinction ’ ) in English demonstrate where his heart truly lay , as did his obtaining the coveted Chester Macnaughton Prize for ‘ Creative Writing ’ in 1955 ; as well as the Peterson Memorial Prize in literature . |