Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice could see Thomas trying to prise his hands apart , but his broken arm proved to be a burden . |
| 2 | Whatever that is , his longer-term ambition seems to be increasingly clear . |
| 3 | Nobody was more surprised than Neeld when his miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million , mostly in cash . |
| 4 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 5 | It should always be possible for the salaried partner to rely on the nature of his subordinate position to claim to be entitled ( at any rate by necessary implication ) to an indemnity from the full partners in respect of any additional liabilities to which his being held out has exposed him : but as a matter of good practice , every would-be salaried partner should insist on written terms which clarify his standing in the firm and effectually indemnify him against extraordinary expenses and liabilities . |
| 6 | His bodily presence seemed to be submerging hers and making them one . |
| 7 | Carried up to the Governor 's House , in much physical pain , his mental pain proved to be more dire . |
| 8 | His mature attitude seems to be at least a decade ahead of his slight , youthful physique . |
| 9 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 10 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 11 | ‘ His first priority seems to be some sort of national health care service . |
| 12 | And even if it was hardly the most spectacular of debuts by the French international , his sheer presence seems to be bringing the best out of United — and especially Mark Hughes . |
| 13 | But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship 's , concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region . |
| 14 | His feelings of restlessness were compounded by the fact that his own work seemed to be slipping away from him . |
| 15 | Since he had no typist or secretary in the country , this meant that much of the time which he wished to devote to his own work had to be spent on business correspondence . |
| 16 | But when his own father needs to be rescued little Daniele is too busy to lift a finger , like the rest of you . |
| 17 | Lewis added : ‘ On the face of it … the decision does look heartless because Morris has natural aspirations to captain England and his own county appear to be cutting them down . |
| 18 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 19 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 20 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 21 | Curiously , his closest friend seems to be the deep left winger , Ivano Bonetti , who played with Ian Rush at Juventus . |
| 22 | He was present at the surrender of Dunbar in May 1296 , which marked the victorious conclusion of Edward 's first campaign , but his main work continued to be high-level diplomacy . |
| 23 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 24 | There were no startling innovations , as Scott found that his main task had to be the adaptation of the wartime organization of the Metropolitan Police to meet peacetime conditions , and he was hampered throughout by a manpower shortage for which it seemed that no solution could be found . |
| 25 | ‘ His whole life seems to be professional . |
| 26 | Anger was rippling through him so fiercely that his whole body seemed to be shivering uncontrollably . |
| 27 | His whole body seemed to be one total ache now . |
| 28 | His whole arm seemed to be afire , a searing contrast to the cold sweat he felt break out on his brow . |
| 29 | The advent of a Labour government , and the dominance of America in post-war Europe , prompted a change of emphasis , and his abiding preoccupation came to be with the survival of European civilization itself . |