Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst them was Tariq Ali , whose background could hardly have been further from his own . |
| 2 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
| 3 | Magritte should be canonised by the advertising industry for the inspiration he has given it ; here are some of his own rarely seen ads |
| 4 | DARLINGTON striker David Cork has been transfer-listed at his own request . |
| 5 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 6 | In the case of a thief , he will find he has been relieved of his own purse when he finally manages to jettison his passenger . |
| 7 | The best step to take for anyone contemplating designing a Japanese-style garden is to visit established examples and decide which elements are applicable on his own patch . |
| 8 | He had been wildly ambitious and intensely purposeful ; he had been sure of his own worth , and determined to succeed . |
| 9 | I thank my hon. Friend for his earlier remarks , in which he recognised the great step forward that we have taken with the Food Safety Act , but I am concerned about his latter comments . |
| 10 | But , for once , he had not been concerned with his own pleasure . |
| 11 | He might be strong in his own opinions but he did not go haring off on his own . |
| 12 | No one can ever be explicit about his own value system because he is inside it . |
| 13 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 14 | The star , not inclined to be bored by his own performance , gave a slightly different interpretation every time , keeping the rest of the cast on its toes . |
| 15 | As for the metaphor of ‘ law ’ , its persisting power is evident whenever someone , pondering the determinist thesis that even his own actions are ‘ bound by ’ , are ‘ subject to ’ , ‘ obey ’ the laws of nature , finds himself thinking as though he ought to be conscious of his own resisting will , as he is when submitting to human laws . |
| 16 | But to make certain that MacDonald would be chosen , he had to be sure of his own party and the Liberals . |
| 17 | Knowing this , Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now sported . |
| 18 | Well personally I mean erm Margaret impressed me greatly but I think John was inclined to be full of his own importance for one thing . |
| 19 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 20 | ‘ Another Clerk ’ wrote the next day to say the first writer must be blind to his own interests . |
| 21 | The man who , in order to understand the inner world of a cannibal tribe , has partaken of the practice of cannibalism , has probably gone too far : he can never quite be one of his own folk again . |
| 22 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 23 | Her object , a northern Irish succentor who looked , in spite of his beard , young enough to be one of his own choir boys , smiled back at her with real warmth . |
| 24 | Every local historian will be familiar with his own county , town or privately-run district museum , and of its importance in the field of historical studies . |
| 25 | Following that principle , Fox will be open about his own bisexuality during the show and , bravely — given the intolerance of some black audiences , invite a response from the crowd . |
| 26 | As Hunt saw the situation on that first Sunday in a new team , he could not be certain about his own capabilities . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Of course , the seller will be liable for his own breach of contract . |
| 29 | Young Pardy could be terrified at his own success . |
| 30 | The set of retroflex consonants in Tamil will also require special drilling for the English speaker , and the dental consonants will be difficult for him to hear as being different from his own alveolar consonants . |