Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget director , suggested that the president should delay releasing his health-care reforms because his economic plan was in trouble in Congress . |
| 2 | His right thigh was between hers , and his face was buried in the pillow and strands of her hair . |
| 3 | Now he 's become sixty five so as you remember he qualifies for the larger age allowances , he qualifies for the larger married couples allowance , so his total allowances are of course considerably increased by the fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 4 | His idiosyncratic usage is at once fascinating for analysis and a warning against making unwary generalisations about lyric poetry . |
| 5 | But to the new professional researcher a Hellenic ideal was something that belonged to the modern world outside ; and while he might privately approve , his professional concern was with a self-contained world of antiquity . |
| 6 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 7 | His strong arms were around her as she struggled . |
| 8 | Owen is in his middle thirties and his working background is in education . |
| 9 | I think his hypocritical extremism is in fact . |
| 10 | His declared strategy is to ‘ compartmentalise ’ the Lyceum 's programme , with a summer season of farce being followed by the Edinburgh Festival and then a season of classics , after which he hopes to produce some new plays . |
| 11 | SIR — Even his political opponents are on record as saying that John Major is a decent chap . |
| 12 | His outstanding contribution was to the Dictionary of National Biography , for which he wrote 778 biographies covering the period from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | One small example of his clean-cut precision is in Chapter 10 , |
| 14 | He greeted Sir Thomas courteously too ; he greeted every damn person lined up with similar courtesy though his private thoughts were on the likelihood of a stiff brandy and soda having been placed ready in his suite . |
| 15 | Now what , you know , his private life was above reproach , and somehow or other people can accept both , and happy to do , it 's about any public figure . |
| 16 | A large proportion of his dependent clauses are in fact noun clauses which complement verbs ( 49 , 53 ) ; such clauses are entirely absent from the Conrad and Lawrence passages . |
| 17 | Unlike the Platonists he saw no ontological continuity between the soul and God , but a relationship of likeness based on the Biblical account of man 's creation in Genesis ( 1:26 — 7 ) where his peculiar property was to be made in the image of God . |
| 18 | Neither of his old clubs are in action today , but both could want him back next season , although Gosforth 's two student locks , Simon Gibbs and Alistair Meadows , have both said they will be staying with the club . |
| 19 | Now Nicholas 's parents and his old school are at loggerheads . |
| 20 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 21 | His light tap was on another door altogether . |
| 22 | His favourite ploy is to simply walk up to someone , smile engagingly and shout : ‘ Hiya . ’ |
| 23 | His favourite walk was down a path between two hedges of yew trees , the famous Yew Alley of Baskerville Hall . |
| 24 | He hardened his opposition to both , despite the fact that his own party chairman had once favoured the first , and vocal forces within his Scottish party were in support of the second . |
| 25 | Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’ |
| 26 | Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind . |
| 27 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
| 28 | His free hand was on her waist . |
| 29 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 30 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |