Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her death , and the pain it wrought in him , now generated the work which was his memorial to their youthful love . |
| 2 | His consultations were conducted fortissimo and his guffaws echoed through the hall which was his waiting room , lined with an interested audience , and out into the street : ‘ BEEN TO ITALY ? |
| 3 | The first is the Holy Spirit , and the second is the Bible which is his tool . |
| 4 | If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) . |
| 5 | Cos Mrs the l what they called the laird it was his wife that was the president first . |
| 6 | The first challenge to the regime came from the Earl of Lancaster who perhaps felt that Mortimer had denied him the authority which was his due as chief councillor to the king . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 8 | ROMEO crook Paul Davies told last night of his passionate affair … with the woman who was his PROBATION officer . |
| 9 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 10 | But he loved the river which was his life . |
| 11 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 12 | Kaunda invited him ; and Sir Roy has been telling his friends how much his reception meant to him , from the man who was his bitter political foe . |
| 13 | Pure lexical ambiguity : He reached the bank What is his position ? |
| 14 | In the end it was his weakness for women and his love of the good life , particularly if sponsored by others , that proved fatal . |
| 15 | But he had repented of his impulse as swiftly , she knew , aghast at himself that he could consider treating her so roughly , a young woman from the family who were his friends , almost his own kin , his people . |
| 16 | And the cops standing there asking me if I knew anything and all the time it 's his gear they 're looking at . |
| 17 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 18 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |
| 19 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 20 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |