Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he goes I 'm I 'm pot on his head |
| 2 | In his memoirs , which are monuments to his own consistency , he answered this question in the negative : while admitting that he had no pre-established plan ( naturally since that would have been the kind of dogmatic thinking that he abhorred ) , he insisted that " the broad outlines were fixed in my mind … |
| 3 | These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) . |
| 4 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 5 | WHEN pressed to name some rich and famous people who are customers at his London restaurants , Viscount Linley replied : ‘ As I was telling the Queen the other night , I just hate name-dropping . ’ |
| 6 | Bradl greatly appreciates the men who are part of his team , especially tuner Sepp Schlogl . |
| 7 | ‘ But not until you are mother of his heir . |
| 8 | Hayling nominated Riley and Bohanna , who were cronies from his days as a ‘ workerist ’ Big Flame activist at Fords . |
| 9 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 10 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 11 | She was part of his life . |
| 12 | ‘ In the circumstances , I think we will follow you , but let me remind you that we are envoys of His Gracious Majesty King Henry VIII of England . ’ |
| 13 | We 're part of his family . |
| 14 | We were eye-witnesses of his majesty … |
| 15 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 16 | There are tears on his face and I wipe them away . |
| 17 | There are tears in his eyes . |
| 18 | There are explorations of his war-time activities ; his work for Beveridge and the Economic Commission for Europe ; his work as a tax adviser in developing countries ; his proposals for tax reform in the UK ; his original views on the functioning of the world economy and his theoretical contributions mentioned above . |
| 19 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 20 | Certainly there are references in his works to his " wandering like Cain " and also to disagreements with monks whom he criticises for their worldliness and describes as jealous of his own popularity and envious of his mystical experience . |
| 21 | I have watched Nigel on video , and there are flaws in his attack . |
| 22 | I 'm a housekeeper , a kind of serf — what I think does n't matter , only whether the cheese soufflé rises and if there are buttons on his shirt . |
| 23 | Mr Onanuga admits that there are aspects of his story which do not appear to add up . |
| 24 | There are songs of his where , when you start playing solos , sometimes it 's hard to stop because you get into this … |
| 25 | He has little difficulty in pulling summer sheets and other light rugs straight over his head , even if there are straps under his tummy , so at night he has a rug with leg straps to keep it in place . |
| 26 | Would there be room for his Roller ? |
| 27 | ‘ There were rings on his fingers . |
| 28 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 29 | There were bruises on his neck and a bloodstained rag round his right hand . |
| 30 | There were threats to his academic career , but they came from a different direction . |