Example sentences of "to his [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , when it comes to his turn to be on top of his wife again , he falls down backwards on to her ( 4281 ) , the wrong way around for sexual intercourse , as she sleeps with John after their night-time labours . |
| 2 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 3 | Much more could , and has , been written about his qualities , but little of this is relevant to his claim to be a martyr — and it should be remembered that this claim was his own and most successful invention . |
| 4 | He takes a kindly interest in David , whose father he had buried , as he recalls when he takes the boy to his shop to be measured for mourning for his mother 's funeral . |
| 5 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 6 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |