Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] be [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 2 | It is in the three largest works on the recording that Demidenko is at his very best , with incredibly strong and deep sonorities at the end of the C major Toccato , Adagio and Fugue , providing an almost terrifying conclusion to this monumental work . |
| 3 | The affronted lover tried to interrupt , to insist that Gaby was under his protection and that the arrangement was impossible , but Modigliani insisted that he had painted several portraits of Madame in the nude that would be worth ‘ thousands ’ one day and pressed one on her luckless lover . |
| 4 | The arrival of £1.5million-rated James from Watford had sparked rumours that Grobbelaar was on his way out . |
| 5 | When Callahan heard that Hornbaker was on his way , he was as jumpy as Gary Cooper waiting for Frank Miller and his gang to ride into town in High Noon . |
| 6 | It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist . |
| 7 | That happens in the opening verse of our lesson ; we 're told that Jesus was in his own city , almost certainly Capernaum , and he saw Matthew sitting in the tax office . |
| 8 | Still trying to regain the imposing form he had displayed in the past days at Celtic and West Ham , there was a strong suspicion that McAvennie was past his prime . |
| 9 | His ‘ arch-opponent ’ , as he called Palmerston , was ‘ once more the autocrat of England ’ , and although he thought that Fitzroy was on his side , he was ‘ sworn to uphold Lord P 's views ’ . |
| 10 | Typical of these is the Invective against France which survives in several manuscripts : it depicts the French as effeminate , combining the characteristics of the lynx , viper and wolf ; King Philip 's fraudulent claims to the French throne and his unworthiness for it are elaborately exposed with biblical and legal references ; by contrast Edward 's victories , secured by his virtuousness , serve only to prove that God was on his side . |
| 11 | Saddam Hussein claimed that God was on his side . |
| 12 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 14 | It is , I think , in the analysis of this so-called remedial work that Goffmann is at his most imaginative and productive . |
| 15 | I stood up and gazed along the barrel of the Bren gun and could n't help smiling to myself and thinking that Taff was at his funniest when he was annoyed about something , even though our circumstances at the moment were anything but funny . |
| 16 | In the same way that , in 1941 , he had been convinced that Hitler was in his debt for services rendered in the struggle against communism , Franco now believed the western powers owed it to him to recognize that he had been right all along . |