Example sentences of "there be [det] [noun] in his " in BNC.

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1 There are many gaps in his legal knowledge that he now has an opportunity to make good , as he never will again .
2 Mull does not feature large in JTR 's text but there are several engravings in his book of the island .
3 " There were some logs in his backyard , " he said .
4 In midwinter — it was the first week of February — there were few dogs in his compounds , although there was one large , affable-looking but wholly terrified cat .
5 This man , yes , there 's another woman in his life , but — ’
6 Konitz acknowledges that there is some basis in his history for this view : he and his 1950s musical guru , the pianist Lennie Tristano , in a sense set themselves up as a ( white ) alternative school to bebop : ‘ Tristano was keen to prove that whites could play jazz , though Charlie Parker , Lester Young and Louis Armstrong were his heroes .
7 There was such tenderness in his face as he studied the tears flowing down her cheeks that she cried all the harder .
8 Out on the pathway leading to the gate he took her arm , saying , ‘ She gets dafter as she gets older , ’ but there was such warmth in his tone that his words could have been translated as , ‘ Is n't she marvellous ! ’
9 His face was dark purple and there was that look in his eyes again .
10 But there was that house in his mind , he was building it again , putting room after room .
11 There was little warmth in his answering smile .
12 There was enough venom in his voice to poison the landlord who managed to remain unmoved .
13 Colt sat upright in the chair , there was less ache in his spine that way , less of a throb in his kidneys .
14 The natural jauntiness remained in his step but there was less confidence in his thoughts , it seemed .
15 His earlier answer suggested that there was some doubt in his mind about whether that was necessary .
16 He was uncertain how much further he was expected to probe or whether , in the light of Berowne 's resignation , there was any point in his probing .
17 There was more complicity in his winks than was warranted .
18 I know there was another woman in his life . ’
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