Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 2 | What worries me is his Russian collection . |
| 3 | He is having counselling , but what worries me is his inability to talk to us about it . |
| 4 | No one but he , my son , must know I am his mother . |
| 5 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you know it 's his birthday today ? ’ |
| 7 | And he would know it was his doing . |
| 8 | I do n't know it was his idea . |
| 9 | His face had been battered so badly , his father did n't know it was his own son until he squeezed his hand and muttered ’ Dad . ’ |
| 10 | How did you know it was his friend done it ? |
| 11 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 12 | Then a dreadful thing happened , or so I heard , for they had left the farm by then , ; the poor Rector — I expect it was his own doing , for they say he drank far too much — set fire to himself in bed one night , and the house was burnt and he with it . |
| 13 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |
| 14 | When he is caught it is his trial which is the next stage of the criminal justice system to attract media attention . |
| 15 | PC TONY Spong arrested a man at a burgled petrol station — and found it was his brother . |
| 16 | Oh course I can Erm there was a game that we called er Tin Lurky You probably wo n't well you never hear that expression now and er we used to get this old t any tin can and er you somebody would kick it you see and er the one that was sort of one used to have to fur and fetch this tin an bring it back again and then was should all hide , sounds a daft silly game , I know , but this one had to find us and the first one he found it was his turn next to fetch the tin and then find us again . |
| 17 | In the first place it was his duty to preserve intact the lands and rights entrusted to his care . |
| 18 | He spoke in a voice that he told me was his Courtroom voice . |
| 19 | Why could n't he have said she was his sister — or even a cousin ? |
| 20 | He himself believed he was his father 's son , and even more importantly , his uncle 's nephew , and that is what matters . |
| 21 | He believed it was his duty to speak out . |
| 22 | He still believed it was his God given right to govern . |
| 23 | Afterwards he says it 's his fault . |
| 24 | They said their lives had been ruined , but Mr Lanaghan says it 's his family who 've really suffered |
| 25 | He says it 's his first time in Henley , so he does n't know . |
| 26 | Er , dad says it 's his |
| 27 | his mate says it 's his birthday and his dad paid for a recording session somewhere . |
| 28 | But if he 's not gon na be willing , then Boaz it 's his responsibility . |
| 29 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 30 | The draggy love interest was provided by Elsa Martinelli , who plays Romero 's daughter , although Dustin thinks she was his lover . |