Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 2 | They broke their fast in a small tavern near Catte Street , Ranulf revelling at being back in London , straining like a dog on a leash , wanting to be off on his own personal business . |
| 3 | He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life , on its miniature scale , will be qualitatively like His own , not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His . |
| 4 | Santerre seemed cheerful enough , shuffling his feet , warming his hands , and loudly declaring how good it was to be back in his own home and with his own people . |
| 5 | Dom João will be here in his own good time : he has said he will come to Ireland , and come he surely will . " |
| 6 | Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example . |
| 7 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 8 | Some of the problems he faced were not of his own making . |
| 9 | Nor did he find it awkward that the tutor 's rooms were immediately below his own in the Pepys building . |
| 10 | No he 's only on his own . |
| 11 | Well he 's all on his own . |
| 12 | He has kept five clean sheets in his last seven outings , a feat which is down to his own ability and the fact he ‘ now has a good understanding with the defenders in front of me ’ . |
| 13 | I think our flat is just of his own , he comes and goes where he likes . |
| 14 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 15 | But although his name will recur in pedigrees into the foreseeable future , it is more for his own deeds on the racecourse that Nijinsky will be remembered . |
| 16 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 17 | The 24-year-old has claimed all three Blades goals so far and is out on his own as the leading candidate for Lineker 's shirt , according to team-mate Ian Bryson . |
| 18 | He is out on his own in terms of skill and becoming better for his experience in French football with Strasbourg . |
| 19 | With with the free kick , it 's midway inside his own half and Blackburn as they as they do away from home they get everybody behind the ball even if they are from the third division . |
| 20 | She can have kids , that 's right and it 's also , well it 's back to his own his own fantasy child is n't it and th his own inability to have children with Martha . |
| 21 | ‘ But the proof of Elvis 's state of mind at the time of his death is there in his own words . |
| 22 | Derek said , and he 's there on his own ? |
| 23 | In scene four , Anderson 's uneasiness is ultimately of his own making , but in scene six it is the confusing and confrontational nature of the speech situation he finds himself in which unnerves him . |
| 24 | After that evening he was rarely on his own again . |
| 25 | ‘ Their Number Three was all on his own . |
| 26 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 28 | The design was largely of his own specification and the trophy is in the form of an oblong casket resting on four miniature wooden bowls . |
| 29 | Linighan was through on his own to shoot past Flowers for a somewhat overdue first goal of the season . |
| 30 | It was scarcely on his own back , however , that the Sahib 's impedimenta were borne : |