Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 The king of England was indeed emperor in his own kingdom , but he was expected to swear an oath of homage and fealty to another sovereign or princeps et dominus superior .
2 Damian was already chairman of his own investment house in New York !
3 Henderson is genuinely optimisitc about his triple Champion Hurdler , See You Then , who will be ten at the turn of the year , making a comeback next month .
4 Unlike other sociologists , notably Emile Durkheim , whose basic emphasis is on social structure , Weber is firmly individualist in his insistence that individuals choose among alternatives according to their particular aims , interpretations , and calculations .
5 Drew was again noncommittal about his movements on the Saturday evening .
6 Janet Roscoe had finished re-reading A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and felt just a little less certain now about her long-held view ( she had earlier been an actress ) that Mr Shakespeare was sometimes way below his best when it came to the writing of comedy .
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