Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [noun sg] [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 | You 're the treasure in his purse ; he wo n't spill you . ’ |
| 4 | You 're the key to his future . ’ |
| 5 | You 're the key to his future . ’ |
| 6 | You 're you 're you 're the beneficiary of his er hi hi his f thirty thousand pound . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He liked to hint that his relationship with Gina was some sort of grande passion and that she was the love of his life . |
| 9 | Now she was the mother of his son . |
| 10 | He married her in 1242 or 1243 , and she was the mother of his eldest son and heir , Hugh . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was still the great lover , and the woman beside him was the reason for his constant philandering . |
| 16 | All he saw in her was the absence of his daughter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's the race of his life and he should get the result of his life . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's the secret of his success . |
| 21 | It 's the culmination of his development in the theatre since the mid-Sixties brought his unforgettable Lear with Paul Scofield ; his Theatre of Cruelty season ; and the sledgehammer , operatic impact of his Marat/Sade . |
| 22 | Allan says it 's the pressure of his work but the truth is he does n't find her appealing any more . |
| 23 | It 's the basis of his feelings of nationalism . ’ |
| 24 | While Eubank would do well to respect Gimenez 's aggressive , hard-punching style — the Paraguayan has lost five times but never been stopped — it is the preservation of his own lavish lifestyle that drives 26-year-old Eubank on to fight after punishing fight . |
| 25 | It is the story of his search for cultural and historical identity and is , in this sense , a personal exploration as well as a travel book . |
| 26 | It did so only at a price ; but it is the measure of his greatness that few others in ancient or modern times have attempted , let alone carried through , a comparable essay in the reorientation of Christian thought . |
| 27 | Today it is the home of his descendant , Commander Michael Saunders Watson and his family . |
| 28 | Yet despite the iconic status of Van Gogh 's ‘ tragic ’ life , it is the appearance of his work by which he is ultimately signified , his thick impasto brush-stroke , his vibrant yellows , the urgency of his creative drive . |
| 29 | This technique can be highly effective in selling , moving a buyer from being merely interested in the product to being convinced that it is the solution to his problem . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is the ease of his academicism that marks these Quartets , rather than any inspired invention . |