Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a friend of his , ’ Creed said . |
| 10 | You 're you 're you 're the beneficiary of his er hi hi his f thirty thousand pound . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He liked to hint that his relationship with Gina was some sort of grande passion and that she was the love of his life . |
| 13 | Now she was the mother of his son . |
| 14 | He married her in 1242 or 1243 , and she was the mother of his eldest son and heir , Hugh . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His inquiries and interpretations will inevitably draw polluting and contaminating ideas to the surface , for they are a result of his place as an ‘ institutional shaman ’ and mirror his position as a liminal mover in the organization . |
| 17 | That they are the work of his old age is significant , and was important to Hardy , who frequently associated himself with Verdi or the writers of ancient Greece who continued to produce of their best late in life . |
| 18 | His nearest agnates are at three removes from him : they are the son of his brother and the daughter of another brother or sister , the granddaughter who is the beneficiary of the trust . |
| 19 | They were a part of his past , and like so many other memories , slippery . |
| 20 | The contents of that room had grown with him ; they were an extension of his personality , intimate and revealing . |
| 21 | The most striking thing about him was the intensity of his eyes ; very dark brown , staring , with a simian penetration emphasized by the remarkably clear whites ; eyes that seemed not quite human . |
| 22 | All he saw in her was the absence of his daughter . |
| 23 | It is natural that the surrealist should deal in super-abundance , quite apart from it being a reflection of his youth . |
| 24 | It 's a test of his imaginative sympathy . |
| 25 | and I think it 's a friend of his . |
| 26 | It 's no criticism of his book to say that his view from within remains , as mine did from without , unmistakably English . |
| 27 | As for the great Largo e mesto itself , here it 's the intensity of his phrasing that gives so sharp an edge to the sorrow . |
| 28 | It 's the race of his life and he should get the result of his life . ’ |
| 29 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 30 | It 's the secret of his success . |