Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [noun sg] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will in fact be er I mean I advertise in the er I am a client of his and we will we will be looking at the same he will be a competitor of ours in some fields . |
| 2 | I 'm a friend of his . |
| 3 | ‘ Bill mentioned that you 'd started work here — I 'm an associate of his , by the way , Greg Carey — but he did n't mention how lovely you were . ’ |
| 4 | There is a sense in which each novel of his is an opinion of his , coextensive with the work itself and rather hard , as a rule , to read off in summary . |
| 5 | I was a member of his party , one of his retinue , and when the great Henry lashed out it was dangerous even to be in the same room as the king 's enemy . |
| 6 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 7 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 8 | These are added burdens on the charge payer which are no fault of his own . |
| 9 | His life-story relates his experiments with Truth , or his attempt to live in accordance with certain religious beliefs which were a part of his Hindu heritage . |
| 10 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 11 | ‘ At common law one 's duty to one 's neighbour who is the owner … of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them . |
| 12 | This two-day sale of Impressionist and modern paintings , drawings and sculpture will put on offer a group of works on paper by Egon Schiele , one of which is a watercolour of his wife Edith signed and dated 1915 ( est. £300–400,000 ; $530–700,000 ) . |
| 13 | Bernard 's emotional dishonesty is seen in terms of his ability to split language , which is a product of his psychological duplicity : |
| 14 | However , he manages to retain his honour up to his death which is an indication of his strong character and resilience . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 16 | Camus 's admonition — that if man needs bread and housing ‘ he also needs pure beauty , which is the bread of his heart ’ — is buried under reinforced concrete . |
| 17 | In being able to discriminate truth — or something approximating to it — from falsehood or nonsense , the student enters a state of intellectual freedom in relation to that portion of the world which is the focus of his or her studies . |
| 18 | The same point applies to Tillich 's definition of religion as Ultimate Concern which refers not simply to man 's subjective concern , that is , the expression of his Ultimate Concern , but what he is ultimately concerned about , or that which is the source of his concern . |
| 19 | But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt . |
| 20 | He wore a Paisley dressing-gown which was a reminder of his good taste — not that one was necessary ; the whole room , in fact the whole hotel , was a monument to it . |
| 21 | His boyish good looks , his jet-black Beatle cut and the unusual film-star name which was a product of his Italian parentage , made him a magnet for instant attention . |
| 22 | The trooper had the dwarf by a gathered handful of material which was the shoulder of his tunic . |
| 23 | David Lodge 's screenplay of his novel Nice Work , which was the subject of his article in the last edition of The Birmingham Magazine , has received two awards since it was televised last autumn . |
| 24 | The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection . |
| 25 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 26 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 27 | But anyway , saying to Father that you , who are the apple of his eye , and in whom he considers he 's bred a lady , telling him that you hope to marry one of the Feltons , the quay Feltons . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're a friend of his , ’ Creed said . |
| 29 | You 're you 're you 're the beneficiary of his er hi hi his f thirty thousand pound . |
| 30 | The satyāgrahi does not violate moral duty , nor does he take advantage of the weakness or vulnerability of his opponent who is the recipient of his actions . |