Example sentences of "[be] his [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said if anything bad ever happened in the school , it was certain to be his daughter who did it . |
| 2 | I thought of sending a nurse , but your mother was good enough to agree to be his nurse herself . ’ |
| 3 | A private motorist who ‘ clocks ’ his car before selling it to a car dealer , may well find that he is guilty under section 23 , since it may well be his act which causes the car dealer to commit an offence under section 1 , Olgiersson v. Kitching ( 1986 D.C. ) . |
| 4 | So may be his successor who , custom dictates , should be dragged unwillingly to the Speaker 's chair when Parliament resumes on April 27 . |
| 5 | When foreign journalists were occasionally bold enough to ask Ceauşescu whether he intended Nicu to be his successor he gave non-committal answers . |
| 6 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 7 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 8 | ‘ Every Man Now , be his fortune what it will , is to be doing something at his Place , as the fashionable Phrase is , ’ writes an enthusiast in 1739 ‘ and you hardly meet with any Body , who , after the first Compliments , does not inform you , that he is in Mortar and moving of Earth ; the modest terms for Building and Gardening ’ . |
| 9 | oh , I mean er , I know we can have different opinions on why we think St John is so adamant that she must be his wife I do think it 's a power struggle . |
| 10 | Although he loathes the Nineties cult of the personality , one suspects that , in future , it wo n't just be his players who are watching him . |
| 11 | If it had been his daughter he would have tried to have stopped it . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 13 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 14 | If I 'd been his wife I would n't have hesitated . |
| 15 | He was our , he was our squadron but not our troop you see , see if I 'd a been his troop he probably would n't of made me go into the sea , but it was fucking cold , I mean , I mean full M B C kit right |
| 16 | An elder sister , Sarah , had in 1787 married the Glasgow architect , John Craig , and it may have been his brother-in-law who provided his initial professional training . |
| 17 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 18 | With Luigi dead , it must have been his son who wrote to Gran , demanding the return of the key to the deposit box . |
| 19 | He smiled — the unknown , rare smile , as if it were his wife he was going to meet — and , lifting his glittering sword , thrust it upwards and forwards . |
| 20 | he had er new place there er er what 's his name they 've got a , they opened a new nursing home did n't they ? |
| 21 | No , John is her friend of er oh I do n't friend of what 's his name her husband , Margaret 's husband . |
| 22 | Oh what 's his name I thought patronises you . |
| 23 | You remember , I told you it 's his company which is building the villas ? ’ |
| 24 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 25 | His great serve and forehand are technical merits , but it 's his drive which singles him out . ’ |
| 26 | to go in hospital , it 's his excuse you see |
| 27 | Surely that 's his jacket she 's wearing ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's his wife who 's upset about the way things are going . ’ |
| 29 | It 's his wife who normally does things . |
| 30 | That 's his play he 's in now is it ? |