Example sentences of "his [noun sg] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |
| 2 | Even if his heart is already damaged , your husband is wrong . |
| 3 | 1.5 Comparison of motor types The system designer is faced with a choice between hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors and his decision is inevitably influenced by the application ; it is not possible to state categorically that one type is " better " in all situations . |
| 4 | The next day , the Speaker leads the Commons back to the Bar of the House of Lords where his election is duly confirmed by the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the monarch and the Speaker then claims from the monarch all the ancient privileges of the House of Commons . |
| 5 | His story is well known : the Cockney self-starter who worked his way up in advertising from messenger boy at 16 to account executive at 20 , when he married his school sweetheart . |
| 6 | No hi hi his his story is more connected with farming . |
| 7 | His elitism is well brought out in his description of the elections of 1705 , where he claimed that " the Principal Gentry , both for Estates and Reputation " , supported the Tory candidates , and " the Refuse and Scum , the Beasts of the People " , supported the Whigs ; he went on to recommend changing the franchise qualification from forty shillings worth of freehold land to " 10 Pounds at least " . |
| 8 | His presence is much appreciated by the team , and the sight of his moped chained to the grandstand always boosts the team 's morale . |
| 9 | William Rubin has suggested that the Gilles-like figure in the watercolour studies is a reference to Douanier Rousseau , clad most characteristically in his beret , and that his presence is still evoked in the left-hand side of the still life through stylistic allusions to his work in terms of insistently if softly modelled forms , smoothly rendered in nuances of Douanier-like greens . |
| 10 | We have the gallery still running reasonably well but it is one man ten hours a week his experience is badly limited this marvellous free resource is no longer being called for . . |
| 11 | His chest is suddenly stained with blood as something pulses frantically beneath his thin shirt . |
| 12 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 13 | His immobility is now pointed , and getting awkward . |
| 14 | Usually , his penis is then packed in ice — and he may well have to be taken to the operating theatre to have the blood clot removed from inside it . |
| 15 | For the moment , though , his mind is firmly set on India and proving the knockers wrong . |
| 16 | Instead of the moment being one of passion and desire , his mind is often filled with such thoughts as ‘ I hope it does n't happen again' and ‘ Please let it be all right this time ’ . |
| 17 | I suppose that his reply is also written in black on white . |
| 18 | If , then , the Member is still of unsound mind , his seat is automatically vacated . |
| 19 | In the United Kingdom an MP wanting to retain his seat is usually re-adopted as a candidate . |
| 20 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 21 | Mopsus , however , puts himself in the power of would-be benefactors , and his vulnerability is ruthlessly exploited . |
| 22 | But his vocabulary is strictly limited and his fighting skills with said chainsaw , now attached by bolts to his handless arm , inventive . |
| 23 | This season Murphy has already sent out 12 winners while his boss is often left to drive the horse-box and saddle up in the parade ring . |
| 24 | And whether he changes his system , ploughs his moorland , reseeds his pasture , increases his stocking rate , drains his bog and fertilises his meadow is strongly influenced by the advice and grant-aid he receives from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 25 | As the above photograph suggests , American artist , photographer and video-maker William Wegman has rather a penchant for doggies of all shapes and sizes , and his work is positively littered with them . |
| 26 | Happily , his work is lavishly chronicled in illustrated books . |
| 27 | His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method . |
| 28 | The garbage picker may be excluded from real opportunities within the urban economy , but , nevertheless , his work is closely integrated into the modern economy . |
| 29 | His work is also featured in a four person show at Michael Klein , ‘ Photoworks ’ . |
| 30 | But his work is always marked by elements of his own life , culminating in his final film , JUKTKI TAKKO AR GAPPO , which is virtually a self-portrait , depicting his own problems with alcoholism . |