Example sentences of "[pron] be the [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | — 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 . |
| 2 | I was the sister on his corridor . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The trooper had the dwarf by a gathered handful of material which was the shoulder of his tunic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 12 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 're the treasure in his purse ; he wo n't spill you . ’ |
| 15 | You 're the key to his future . ’ |
| 16 | You 're the key to his future . ’ |
| 17 | You 're you 're you 're the beneficiary of his er hi hi his f thirty thousand pound . |
| 18 | Richard Harris has had his fair share of feuds with Hollywood actors , although it is n't always easy to distinguish exactly who is the heavy in his conflicts . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Is this a king who is the shepherd of his people ? |
| 21 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 22 | He liked to hint that his relationship with Gina was some sort of grande passion and that she was the love of his life . |
| 23 | Now she was the mother of his son . |
| 24 | He married her in 1242 or 1243 , and she was the mother of his eldest son and heir , Hugh . |
| 25 | It 's the old woman who was the nurse for his mother . |
| 26 | The apparent parallel between the development of the human individual and the history of life on earth is thus God 's symbol telling us that we are the goal of His creation . |
| 27 | for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture , |
| 28 | … for … we are the people of his pasture , the flock under his care |
| 29 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 30 | The execution of the will was certainly not a quick and easy process because of the number and geographical range of the bequests : there were the arrangements for his burial in the Church of St. Thomas of Acre in London , the founding of a chapel at Woodhead and the School in Stockport , together with masses and annual and daily services of prayers for his soul , road building in Essex , repair of the Cripplegate in London , gifts to the poor in and around Stockport and London and to churches in Stockport , Ashton , and Mottram , mourning rings to be made for particular friends , and legacies to his family . |