Example sentences of "his words [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words are as familiar to Soviet schoolchilden as Cromwell 's ‘ In the name of God , go ’ to the Long Parliament over 250 years earlier , is to us . |
| 2 | ‘ This must be the last place on earth where his words are public — except Albania . ’ |
| 3 | When God speaks , his words are devastating . |
| 4 | Shakespeare does n't really exist until his words are spoken out loud . |
| 5 | In English law ‘ precatory ’ is treated as contrasting with ‘ imperative ’ : a settlor is supposed to instruct a trustee to hold property under trust , and if his words are merely precatory , then the question is whether a trust has been set up . |
| 6 | His words are a sober reminder that rebellion against God does not begin with the clenched fist of atheism but with the self-satisfied heart of the one for whom ‘ thank you ’ is redundant . |
| 7 | Smith 's job is to make people see he could care less , can do something about Britain 's problems and that his words are worth more than those of Johnny Devaluation . |
| 8 | His face is beginning to congeal , the reluctant eyelid is drooping and his words are becoming slurred . |
| 9 | His voice is deep and Dublin , like Crilly 's , but unlike Crilly , his words are sparse . |
| 10 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 11 | ‘ Go on up to bed ’ , his words being punctuated by hard slaps to my rump . |
| 12 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 13 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 14 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 15 | He paused to consider the effect his words were having . |
| 16 | Abu Khadra showed little physical emotion when he talked about the past , but his words were carefully chosen and sometimes very angry . |
| 17 | His words were echoed by representatives from the sports clubs . |
| 18 | He spoke lovingly of the dog and his words were most explicit when he explained how he understood its ‘ learning by association ’ . |
| 19 | The woman said it was not true and the god asked her why she had come tonight if she thought that his words were ‘ mere wind and breeze ’ . |
| 20 | His words were cut short at the sight of Willie 's dull , sandy hair on the other side of the counter . |
| 21 | His words were immediately contradicted by the appearance of a dark shadow across the sky . |
| 22 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 23 | His words were all it needed to remind her of home , and while he , presumably , thought of his beautiful green homeland and his dead wife and baby , her thoughts turned to her loved ones . |
| 24 | He failed to announce any new security initiatives in his Commons statement on the atrocity , in which two soldiers died , and his words were dismissed by Strangford MP John Taylor as ‘ bland generalities ’ . |
| 25 | He spoke quietly but in the silence which had fallen his words were all too clearly heard . |
| 26 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 27 | Holly 's head was doubled on his chest , and his words were spoken without sound , and Chernayev talked on from the side of his mouth , oblivious to the loss of his audience . |
| 28 | His words were leaden , heavy on the room , as truth often is . |
| 29 | Pope John 's ‘ optimism ’ was later criticized — why should he ignore apocalyptic signs of disaster to concentrate on those that gave grounds for hope ? — but hope was in such short supply in 1961 that his words were eagerly seized upon ( Moltmann , 1977 , p. 368 , n. 64 ; The Extraordinary Synod of 1985 likewise gave a more ‘ pessimistic ’ reading of the ‘ signs of the times ’ ) . |
| 30 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |