Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers were like a circle of steel around the bones of her wrist as he began moving again . |
| 2 | Though he dismisses the tag of dreamer , the scale of his plans are on a different planet . |
| 3 | His words were like a slap across her face . |
| 4 | His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses . |
| 5 | His words were like a body-blow . |
| 6 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 7 | As he came along the deck his legs were on a level with her eyes . |
| 8 | I hold him up like he was an old coat at a jumble sale , and his eyes are like a frightened rabbit . |
| 9 | His eyes were on a level with Alexei 's and he smiled unpleasantly . |
| 10 | Born with a silver spoon in his mouth , as they say , his worries were on a much higher financial plane than those of us who worried about making the pay packet last to the end of the month . |
| 11 | The burn caused the plaintiff to contract cancer , as the tissues of his lips were in a pre-malignant state . |
| 12 | His shoes were of a brilliant and gleaming tan . |
| 13 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 14 | His creations are on a par with Mozart and the composers of the renaissance . |
| 15 | His wrists are in a cocked position and he has no time to release the clubhead with any force . |
| 16 | Martin Lally did find the net with one of his long-range specials , but the goal was disallowed for one of his team-mates being in an offside position . |
| 17 | Yeah we 're going to stay with his mums 's for a few days sh sh |
| 18 | The President and his advisers are in a completely different position vis-a-vis the legislature compared with the Cabinet in Britain . |
| 19 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
| 20 | Until now he has managed to push bills through the National Assembly , even though his Socialists are in a minority there , by making little deals with the conservatives or with the Communists . |
| 21 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 22 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 23 | The first new project he mentioned in his letters was for a ballet to be danced to the spoken word . |
| 24 | Then there are one or two anachronisms : the spurs seen resting alongside his boots are of a kind unknown during the Renaissance . |
| 25 | His clothes were in a heap , sadly formal clothes compared with hers , one sock suspender hanging from a chair-rail , a jacket sleeve turned inside out . |
| 26 | His thoughts were in a strangely distant turmoil , as though they were no more the workings of his own mind than the far — below hubbub of the party was his own voice . |
| 27 | Of course , he and his colleagues are in a difficult position . |
| 28 | Jasper and his companions were of a size to creep under gates and had done this until they were caught . |
| 29 | The Slaaneshi Champion Alberecht Numan challenged him to battle , but he and all his followers were in an instant reduced to dust . |