Example sentences of "be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 2 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 3 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 4 | One of the greatest hazards to a pilot can be his lack of current flying practice . |
| 5 | He was not single-minded in the manner preferred by academe ; scholarship per se was not going to be his métier . |
| 6 | He has promised that in extremity he will send for her , and she will come and be his nurse . |
| 7 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 8 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 9 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 10 | Javed Miandad will be his deputy . |
| 11 | There will be a few moist eyes at Old Trafford if Fergie finds himself in dreamland again tonight , in what will surely be his last appearance in Britain . |
| 12 | It will not merely be his insight into the All Blacks ' tactics and mentality which will prove valuable . |
| 13 | After all , the situation bulges with seedy potential : a man about to have sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter is suddenly forced to pose as her father . |
| 14 | He was justifiably proud of this splendid work which he rightly considered to be his main literary achievement . |
| 15 | Ultimately , however , the biggest barrier to Lewis 's goal of becoming Britain 's first world heavyweight champion this century may be his own personality . |
| 16 | Emma : Publicity 's a tiger which can turn and rend The man who thought it once to be his friend . |
| 17 | His brother has never driven a cab before either ; this was going to be his first day . |
| 18 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 19 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 20 | He felt the teacher 's rostrum to be his fit place ; the place where he knew that what he had to offer was valued . |
| 21 | He found the ordinations , three times a year , to be his happiest moments . |
| 22 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 23 | All he or she could remove from the account would be his or her commission and expenses . |
| 24 | Because she never had to be his lover in front of Maggie or Rachel she had no need to worry about that either . |
| 25 | It would be his last night of sleep in the room . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Charlie was going to be his best man . |
| 28 | It 's his wedding day and Charlie was going to be his best man . |
| 29 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 30 | Or to try and improve the lives of the people who would one day be his subjects ? |