Example sentences of "his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only when Sir Alfred enlisted the help of his sister , Jean Stanley ( wife of Louis ) was BRM able to proceed for the 1962 season . |
| 32 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 33 | He glanced at Bardsley , a fair rabbity man , like his sister but less well-favoured , and he observed his suit . |
| 34 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 35 | Its hero , Sya , is a crippled Iranian soldier who arrives in London with his sister , Sohy , seeking medical treatment . |
| 36 | Thus Sya , who announces that ‘ one who believes in war believes in God ’ and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos . |
| 37 | ‘ He 's abandoned everyone else in his life , from his mother and father and his sister , three wives and hundreds of girlfriends , to his acting coach . |
| 38 | A letter from Charles Carne dated 27 February 1707 to his sister who had married ‘ William of the Ley ’ reads , ‘ My poor sister , the last Brydges of the Ley is dead . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 40 | His sister Alice followed suit in a slightly less glittery way on the adjoining estate she had bought at Eythrope . |
| 41 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 42 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 43 | ( Abdala Bucaram spent much of 1990 in exile on charges , since dropped , of corruption as mayor of Guayaquil ; his sister is mayor now . ) |
| 44 | AS CHILDREN , Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and his sister Judith were so close that their father called them Punch and Judy . |
| 45 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ We do n't know , ’ says his sister Veronica , a teacher and unpublished poet living in Massachusetts . |
| 48 | His sister Charlotte , hoping these efforts were not in vain , wrote to a friend : |
| 49 | Yet he recorded that , when his elder brother died in a skating accident at the age of thirteen , James and his sister , Maggie , played together under the table on which the coffin was lying . |
| 50 | Like them , he was no spiritualist , though his sister followed the cult . |
| 51 | 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 ! |
| 52 | All its elements have their parallels in the Abraham stories : famine , promises from God , disputes over wells , a ‘ covenant ’ with Abimelech , the king of Gerar , at Beersheba , and , most remarkably of all , Isaac 's telling the men of Gerar that Rebekah , his wife , is his sister . |
| 53 | Sean , his sister Andrew ( p59 ) and Bruce Smith briefly hosted The Hot Sty , a London club that offered up an eclectic and inspiring mix . |
| 54 | Using his sister 's wedding funds , keyboard player Nicholas Nasmyth , 28 , joined the Enterprise Allowance in April . |
| 55 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 56 | William Waldegrave 's father , the twelfth Earl Waldegrave , was a junior agriculture minister under Macmillan , and his sister , Lady Susan Katherine , is a lady-in-waiting to the Queen . |
| 57 | And he surely called on his affines — his mother 's people , his sister 's husbands , his wife 's brothers — for aid in a crisis if they were near to hand . |
| 58 | Nathaniel was the favourite son , fair-haired and blue-eyed , and his sister Annie , my grandmother , kept a lock of his curls until she died . |
| 59 | Eugenics had always gone hand in hand with socialism for Haldane — he and his sister , Naomi ( later Mitchison ) , joined both the Oxford Eugenics Society and the Labour party — because , as he explained , biology compels us to recognise that the innate inequality of men requires scientific management by the state . |
| 60 | Meanwhile his sister Rachel , 20 , has had only one encounter with the media — at her parents ' glitzy silver wedding anniversary party at London 's Inner Temple . |