Example sentences of "[adv] [be] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 2 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 3 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 4 | So were his long trousers , his formal shirts , and what he thought of as his work-clothes : camouflage trousers and combat jackets . |
| 5 | So were his oral extravaganzas . |
| 6 | The attitude of Patullo , a conventional , observant , middle-class intellectual , is a familiar one , and so is his ambiguous attitude to this kind of reading , expressed in a later comment on the unexpected heroism of the man he had regarded with a certain scorn : |
| 7 | In the real world , his lawyer father was soon gone and so was his first stepfather . |
| 8 | Adrian Mitchell , the poet , who had supported It , was there , so was his fellow poet Christopher Logue , Kenneth Tynan , and the television producer Roger Smith . |
| 9 | ‘ But … ’ she cut in , and could see that he thought that to cut in was his sole prerogative when his look became stern and hostile . |
| 10 | The case of ice that weighed him down was his best suit . |
| 11 | That of course had not been his prime reason for going to Rhodes . |
| 12 | By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern . |
| 13 | In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting . |
| 14 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 15 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 16 | However , this had not been his original intention . |
| 17 | David might not be his real kith and kin , but he was honest , and he was hard-working … willing to be at his beck and call and to labour long hours , with only a pittance for his troubles . |
| 18 | I 'd doubt he 'd like this as outpacing fast full back would not be his strongest point . |
| 19 | Gina Bellman stars as the girl who may or may not be his demure wife — and who may or may not be a hooker he meets in a hotel . |
| 20 | Though for one quite dreadful moment she wondered if , English not being his first language , he had meant that he would lunch with her that day , and not dine . |
| 21 | Tonight was his lucky night . |
| 22 | He was not an intellectual ; he made constant use of anecdotal evidence and some of his views bordered on the banal , but one of his great strengths has always been his resolute attachment to a few simple conservative themes . |
| 23 | Dylan 's voice has always been his greatest asset , carrying a huge range of emotions . |
| 24 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 25 | Economics had always been his strong point , and his family had expected him to go into Parliament . |
| 26 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 27 | Yesterday was his big chance . |
| 28 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |
| 29 | Dick Hansen , like most P-40 pilots-to-be , found that his first ride in his aircraft would also be his first solo . |
| 30 | It will also be his first show in a Royal residence , though Balmoral , Windsor and Sandringham are among the subjects of his paintings . |