Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other people in his position too |
| 2 | There are two parts of his life to which he devotes a great deal of space , and to which he returns again and again . |
| 3 | There are two sides to his attack on the experiential explanation . |
| 4 | There are many gaps in his legal knowledge that he now has an opportunity to make good , as he never will again . |
| 5 | There are many references to his opinions and jurisprudential decisions in medieval rabbinic literature , and there survive commentaries on the first mishnaic tractate of the Talmud ( Berakhoth ( benedictions ) ) and on the domestic service ( Haggadah ) for Passover eve written by him . |
| 6 | There are frequent references in his diary to air-raids , sometimes two or three in the same day . |
| 7 | He kept a few gruesome mementoes around him , it is true ; he enjoyed recounting horrors ; there are lurid passages in his early work . |
| 8 | The emphasis of the research is on Kaldor 's writing and thinking rather than on his life in the biographical sense , although there are distinct phases in his intellectual life that can be easily identified . |
| 9 | In fact there are various references in his diaries to his taking his etching equipment out into the landscape — but whether this was soft-ground plates is not made clear . |
| 10 | I should say that he was good for at least another five years of hard work and although there are various rumours about his suffering from some obscure disease which makes his hand extremely shaky , I have had it on the quiet from his medical adviser that he is sound as a bell . |
| 11 | There are various explanations for his reluctance to do so . |
| 12 | There are countless stories about his enthusiasm for trains , from his few moments on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman to David Tweedie 's interview for a job at TMcL largely spent in discussing a mutual interest in the LNER . |
| 13 | Mull does not feature large in JTR 's text but there are several engravings in his book of the island . |
| 14 | There are several pieces among his work which reveal his technical expertise — experiments with collage and distorting lenses — as well as many which are unexpectedly savage in their satire . |
| 15 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 16 | But there are glaring errors in his sums . |
| 17 | But there are further reasons for his choice of qualifier , and they involve Davie in cultural as well as literary criticism . |
| 18 | She is a little playful , first accepting and then rejecting his advances , whilst he suggests there are stronger feelings behind his efforts to steal a kiss . |
| 19 | As in scene six , Anderson withholds information but there are important differences in his reasons for doing so here which implicate a major change of attitude . |
| 20 | He was pale with exhaustion and there were blue marks under his eyes . |
| 21 | There were four canonizations during his pontificate . |
| 22 | She knew that there were murky corners to his business affairs , that for a suave good-looking man , he had one or two unfortunate characteristics , like a ferocious temper . |
| 23 | While MacArthur had enormous power as the supreme commander , there were noticeable differences among his advisors especially on the general issue of the strength of ‘ latent democratic tendencies ’ in Japan . |
| 24 | His hands were scratched and dusty and there were small rips in his sweater . |
| 25 | In 1981 there were thirty-seven meetings of his Cabinet and during the first term the flow of routine domestic-policy business was routed through seven cabinet committees . |
| 26 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 27 | There were good reasons for his decision , not least of which was the stability that the old man 's presence would bring to the Security forces . |
| 28 | There were two sons by his father 's second marriage . |
| 29 | I wish to state however that there were two areas in his evidence which I found myself totally unable to accept . |
| 30 | There were two projects on his mind : one was the little prose book which had been " clogging his system " , to employ another of his own phrases , since the mid-Forties , and the other was the new play which had been postponed effectively since 1939 . |