Example sentences of "[be] his [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the statue of the Virgin who put her arms round the young man and put his wedding ring on her finger to be his bride for ever , this pastry man , so scrumptious , sweet-smelling , so delicious to taste , comes to life as you speak and puts his arms around you and you put yours round him … . |
| 2 | One had its ribs kicked in through its lungs … leastways that wuz his opinion of how it prob'ly happened . |
| 3 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 4 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 5 | Yeah What 's his salary like there then ? |
| 6 | That 's his bedroom through there . ’ |
| 7 | And it 's our , and it 's his fault for like |
| 8 | It is his job as well as his misfortune to seek to reduce to writing concepts and ideas fashioned and implanted by somebody else . |
| 9 | More significant is his predicament of not wishing to agree to Hollar 's request for Anderson to smuggle his politically-charged thesis out of Czechoslovakia , but , at the same time , not wanting to jeopardise their friendship . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 11 | ‘ Good God , she is his senior by more than ten years for one thing . |
| 12 | Grief — where was his charm of yesterday ? |
| 13 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 14 | It was his profession for so many years — not unlike my own . ’ |
| 15 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |