Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [is] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 Naturally he needs a working knowledge of property and company law and the law of procedure ; and the better his knowledge , the better he is at his job .
2 ‘ As I say , it went to Canon Wheeler or perhaps it 's in his house , amongst his effects . ’
3 Yeah it 's a I would guess that this er we you know , when they come down and the strips and they go back up again , it looks as if perhaps that 's what 's happened here because the the rope has sort of got this twist in it and one imagines that when they jump down it 's not quite er er right and so perhaps he 's on his way back up again .
4 He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work .
5 Perhaps he is at his club . ’
6 No O K. So he 's on his own in the room at night , erm and what do you think is outside the window ?
7 So it is upon his perception of trade unions operating as industrial co-operatives and thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , that his hero 's place depends , a perception which trade unionism was so quickly to abandon .
8 Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow .
9 Hopefully he 's on his way . ’
10 Now he 's at his zenith
11 Now he 's on his way now , yes let's get through here , we ca n't hang about here , let's get through and away .
12 But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’
13 Now he is in his element .
14 Well it 's on his way home .
15 Well he 's on his way to Fiji via Melbourne
16 Here he is with his hands full after a buying spree in a corner shop .
17 If he wishes to accept the principle of the Bill , surely it is within his powers , when it reaches another place , to have either the long title or the short title amended and to bring in an amendment on a broader basis within the Bill 's scope .
18 If all that was put on of design , to disguise guilt , then he is beyond his years bold , sharp-witted and devious .
19 The hon. Gentleman has acknowledged , indeed it is in his report , that , by simply increasing the income support rate , all that we do is cause the fees to rise behind it .
20 This all assumes that Golding 's idea of original sin is true and is therefore it is from his perspective , but I do agree with the point he makes and therefore feel that in real life the girls would degenerate into some kind of ‘ sin ’ .
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