Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried several times to talk to his sister Laetitia on the telephone , but she continued to be elusive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Matthew Cuthbert lived with his sister Marilla on their farm on Prince Edward Island in Canada . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But following his hope GP at Assen last June , Zeelenburg 's fortunes took a spectacular turn for the worse . |
| 7 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 8 | After completing his national service in the army he had planned to use his university degree in law and mathematics to embark on a career as a lawyer . |
| 9 | Murray 's brother sold the letter to the ambitious editor of his university newspaper for £20 . |
| 10 | The Second Son had his university uniform of jeans and T-shirts , but these were always left in England . |
| 11 | Young Robert 's certainly not taking his University place for granted . |
| 12 | Mubarak offered his shield belt to Alexei . |
| 13 | Mr Shevardnadze , worn out by the struggle for reform , used his resignation speech to the Congress to give warning that a new dictatorship was in preparation . |
| 14 | ‘ Look neither to the right nor to the left , but keep straight on ’ , Asquith had told the faithful in his resignation speech of October 1926 . |
| 15 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 16 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 17 | As chairman of the central committee , Sharon opened the meeting by reading the text of his resignation letter to the Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , and the other 3,000 assembled delegates . |
| 18 | On May 7 , Aleksii II , Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia , announced that the Holy Synod had decided that the head of the UOC , Metropolitan Filaret , could face trial by the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC ) if he failed to honour his resignation announcement of April 2 . |
| 19 | Mr Cheney refused to pay his income tax on the ground that part of it would be used to build nuclear weapons for use in circumstances which would be in breach of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 , and that this illegal purpose rendered his tax demand invalid . |
| 20 | Henry removed his hand and wagged his index finger at his member . |
| 21 | Burroughs anticipates Pynchon with his scientist spokesman for control , Dr Benway , the surreal city called Interzone and in sketching out commercial networks . |
| 22 | As he reached the departures area , he swung his walk-on bag from right hand to left and took his boarding-card from a hip pocket . |
| 23 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 24 | Early in the eighteenth century , Charles Whittingham moved his printing press from the City of London into a house on Chiswick Mall — as that river front became known — called ‘ High House ’ , and The Chiswick Press was established . |
| 25 | But the initial simple desire for change soon took on a more sinister hue when Rupert Murdoch completely switched his printing operation from Fleet Street to Wapping in the East End of London . |
| 26 | Last month saw his dreams shattered and his printing business in ruins . |
| 27 | Tempers had flared between Brendan Meehan , 44 , and the Mansha family over damage to the meter and a window at his bedsit flat in Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | Fears that the US-EC trade talks were on the brink of chaos were compounded by MacSharry 's abrupt resignation as EC negotiator on Nov. 5 , amid allegations that his negotiating brief at Chicago had been severely constrained by threats from Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , that he would veto any agreement involving cuts in the volume of EC farm exports [ see p. 39170 ] . |
| 29 | In what spare time he had , Garrett put his electronics experience into the building of metal detectors for use in treasure hunting . |
| 30 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |