Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pers pn] be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 2 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 3 | Bede represents Oswald as bringing under his sway all the peoples of Britain , divided by language into Angles , Britons , Picts and Irish ( HE 111 , 6 ) , but elsewhere writes that it was his brother and successor Oswiu , who made tributary the Picts and the Scots who inhabited the northern parts of Britain ( HE 11 , 5 ) . |
| 4 | Also , according to Aszal , they said they did not doubt that she was his wife . |
| 5 | Because very young children have this inherent feeling that their parents can do no wrong , should one or other of those adults disappear from the scene for any reason , the child will always think that it is his fault . |
| 6 | But does he ever feel that it is his fate never to become World Champion ? |
| 7 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 8 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
| 9 | Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future . |
| 10 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 11 | Earlier he had been officially advised that it was his legal right to have his solicitor present ; but surprisingly Downes had taken no advantage of the offer . |
| 12 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |