Example sentences of "[modal v] be [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother . |
| 2 | Mother Francis knew it must be part of his divine plan , but at times she wondered had she prayed hard enough , had she examined every possibility . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 5 | It 'll be zip on his erm tracksuit . |
| 6 | He could remember so much , he had clear pictures of whole days spent at Ecalpemos , whole conversations recorded that could be rerun in his head . |
| 7 | ‘ There may be reasons for his silence , perfectly good reasons if we only knew them . |
| 8 | Whatever the bodyservant picks up may be grist to his master 's mill . |
| 9 | One day he would be Head of his family-a powerful man , almost a god . |
| 10 | He nodded , hoping that this would be evidence of his character . |
| 11 | so he said that apparently whenever he came back to B S H he was told by Neville roughly about eighteen hundred acres would be sort of his target |
| 12 | He had fought the intruder and there would be samples on his knuckles and in his fingernails of his aggressor 's skin and blood . |
| 13 | ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ he asked , going on to apologise that he would have to leave them shortly since it would be time for his surgery . |
| 14 | When the professor is in charge of any collection belonging to the University it shall be part of his duty to make such collection accessible to , and available for the instruction of , students attending his lectures . |
| 15 | Again , the normal assumption is that these will be members of his or her own party , but exceptionally a coalition may be formed in which government offices go to other parties . |
| 16 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 17 | For one griffoun there will be flynge to his nest a great hors , or two oxen yoked togidre … he hath talouns so grete upon his feet … so that men maken cuppes of hem to drynke of … |