Example sentences of "he [be] the [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 He is the voice of his circle , his generation .
2 In the Third Act he realizes that the world is against him but he is intelligent enough to know that he is the victim of his own weaknesses .
3 In every way he was the opposite to his timid little mother .
4 He was the apple of his eye , ’ she said .
5 Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press .
6 John began to wonder whether More MacMinimum was not , after all , a most apt name for this man ; perhaps , indeed , he was the figment of his own name .
7 Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death .
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