Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well have asked his sister to invite Meredith . |
| 2 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 3 | At first I thought that Stapleton would be very pleased if his sister married Sir Henry . |
| 4 | His only brother died young ; his sister married Richard Highgate . |
| 5 | But I 'm the one who 'll be waiting at Walbury Hill tonight , with nothing but my father 's last letter to his sister to buy Sam 's freedom with . ’ |
| 6 | , Sir Richard ( 1722–1799 ) , merchant , MP , and founder of the seaside resort of Bognor , Sussex , was born in York 5 October 1722 , the youngest of five children ( of whom only he and his sister survived infancy ) of Joseph Hotham , gentleman , and his wife Sarah Bradley . |
| 7 | Francie had taken his fiddle and gone off about his own business in his Easter Rising trilby and mackintosh . |
| 8 | ‘ Stick the hook in his gill slit Mary , ’ he gasped , again going red in the face . |
| 9 | But that innocent child earns his livelihood robbing corpses . ’ |
| 10 | South Africa 's President De Klerk has welcomed victory in his referendum to end apartheid . |
| 11 | He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn . |
| 12 | [ For Lee 's announcement in October 1989 of his retirement and his designation in January 1990 of Goh as his successor see pp. 36976 ; 37085 . ] |
| 13 | From the heady acclaim of August 1944 , his popularity descended so far that his resignation provoked surprise but no emotion — a mere twenty-seven per cent of the French people said they wanted him back . |
| 14 | His resignation followed reports of clashes with the Prime Minster and Finance Minister , Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller , who had rejected his request for increased agricultural credits of US$300,000,000 until the end of the year to deal with an acute agricultural crisis and serious food shortages . |
| 15 | His resignation took effect from March 28 when delegates of the ruling People 's National Party ( PNP ) elected a new party president who automatically became Prime Minister . |
| 16 | When Rouse came to England his favourite playing partner was Stan Tracey . |
| 17 | In spite of his earlier suggestion that I should talk as I ate , Sir Edmund refused to listen to me until I 'd put away a plate of his favourite devilled kidneys . |
| 18 | As the last concert was held in a field in a howling wind , my grandfather sang one of his favourite Burns songs ; O' aa the Airts the Wind can Blaw . |
| 19 | Yet Seb could not find it in his heart to dislike Nahum Plunkett . |
| 20 | When relations grew particularly bad he became the child go-between in a household of warring parents : ‘ Ask your father if it would break his heart to change channels so I can watch the news . ’ |
| 21 | My maternal grandfather strained his heart hauling guns up the face of the Maltese cliffs . |
| 22 | His heart stopped beating . |
| 23 | He would be unlikely to survive the procedure but could well remain dependent on machinery for life support for weeks if not months before his heart stopped beating . |
| 24 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 25 | For all Henry 's faults , it was under his rule that the Reformation had been achieved ; in his grief Cranmer allowed his beard to grow unshaven for the rest of his life . |
| 26 | it is more likely lie would have to take whatever work was going , as a day worker , and await his opportunity making friends and contacts . |
| 27 | His struggle to regain fitness may well have contributed to his later confidence and optimism in facing the problems of the 1930s . |
| 28 | If he 's no been a manager for a while , having worked ‘ outside football ’ , people start gossiping about his inability to sell foot-salve . |
| 29 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
| 30 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |