Example sentences of "[pron] be his [noun sg] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am his wife and you are his best friend , and neither of us could … |
| 2 | Yet I am his wife and I desire him . |
| 3 | I 'm his daughter and he abused me ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm his mother and I knew him . ’ |
| 5 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |
| 6 | And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son . |
| 7 | This way a man may always read who is his friend and who his enemy . ’ |
| 8 | Still , she was his girlfriend and he was wonderful to her in Gypsy Baron and also in Maritza . |
| 9 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 10 | It 's his daughter and she 'll always be his daughter , and God Almighty Himself wo n't dare put a spoke in between them , or else . |
| 11 | It 's his imagination and it 's the poem that 's coming alive . |
| 12 | Do you know what I mean it is erm it 's his car and I ca n't do nothing wrong with it . |
| 13 | his mate says it 's his birthday and his dad paid for a recording session somewhere . |
| 14 | It is his boma and his forum . |
| 15 | There are many reasons why fashion has begun to look to Cocteau , not simply because it is his centenary and his Hellenic graphics have begun to adorn cult objects in designer stores ( on white vases at Oggetti , on black watch faces at the Watch Gallery ) . |
| 16 | It was his mission and he had to fulfil it , she said . |
| 17 | As the elder brother , it was his privilege and his right to ‘ go oot ’ whenever the fancy took him , especially as he was a toiler . |
| 18 | It was his decision and we have no further comment to make on it ’ , was Moscato 's verdict . |
| 19 | It was his life and he loved every minute of it . |
| 20 | For it was his room and his bed in which she had lain so snugly . |
| 21 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 22 | The only reason he was there every week was because it was his gig and he had arranged the Beckenham Arts Lab . |
| 23 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 24 | Treason and murder were the charges but what was his treachery and whom had he allegedly murdered ? |