Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had to be part of his make-up , and for an instant she wished she could decide what sign he was . |
| 32 | It 'll be zip on his erm tracksuit . |
| 33 | With Johanson , who recently moved to California to be director of his own Institute of Human Origins , are Tim White and Desmond Clark , at the University of California at Berkeley . |
| 34 | For one griffoun there will be flynge to his nest a great hors , or two oxen yoked togidre … he hath talouns so grete upon his feet … so that men maken cuppes of hem to drynke of … |
| 35 | Would there be room for his Roller ? |
| 36 | so he said that apparently whenever he came back to B S H he was told by Neville roughly about eighteen hundred acres would be sort of his target |
| 37 | He nodded , hoping that this would be evidence of his character . |
| 38 | Another is Alcuin ( 735–804 ) , who was called from York by the Emperor Charlemagne to be head of his Palace School . |
| 39 | One day he would be Head of his family-a powerful man , almost a god . |
| 40 | Yeah he goes I 'm I 'm pot on his head |
| 41 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 42 | The first England player to be captain on his birthday was W.G. Grace , on July 18 , 1896 , his 48th birthday , but Australia won . |
| 43 | Whatever the bodyservant picks up may be grist to his master 's mill . |
| 44 | He could remember so much , he had clear pictures of whole days spent at Ecalpemos , whole conversations recorded that could be rerun in his head . |
| 45 | Might there not be reason in his madness ? |
| 46 | He was now eighteen years old and wanted to be master in his own household . |
| 47 | The Fife MPs , Mr Brown , Rachel Squire , Henry McLeish , Lewis Mooney and Menzies Campbell , were assured by Mr Aitken that an idea by Devonport for Rosyth to refit oil tankers would not be material to his decision about the nuclear contract . |
| 48 | ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ he asked , going on to apologise that he would have to leave them shortly since it would be time for his surgery . |
| 49 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 50 | A judicial factor was appointed on the sequestrated estate of a partner in a licensed business , his share in the partnership property being part of his sequestrated estate . |
| 51 | His meeting with those he eventually took hostage in San José was reported as being part of his negotiation with the Honduran government , mediated by Fishman , over the return of two Hondurans who had " disappeared " eight years previously . |
| 52 | ‘ Not quite the same thing , ’ Marx said , mildly and without rancour , as if half-truths and no-truths were part of his life , which they were . |
| 53 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 54 | Revenge and restoration were part of his duty . |
| 55 | It had been his custom every year at Pentecost to distribute robes to the knights whom he maintained in his household ; such acts of largesse were part of his duty as a good lord . |
| 56 | His weapons were part of his his message . |
| 57 | They were part of his world , they were his world . |
| 58 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 59 | Further suppose that he had tried Kant 's remedy of being kind to his dogs , only to discover that it served merely to fan the flames of his misanthropy . |
| 60 | Not even the horrendous edit at track 3 , 3′10″ can detract from the splendours of a disc that completely overturns any ideas one might have had of this being Bruckner at his most jejune . |