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Example sentences of "[be] his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless .
2	He 's certainly amongst friends this morning , we 're his friends and we ask him to address conference .
3	I 'm his daughter and he abused me !
4	I says no I 'm his brother-in-law but I know all his details and I said , he was n't here !
5	‘ I 'm his mother and I knew him . ’
6	How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ?
7	She had confronted him and , blushing furiously , had offered to be his mistress if he would promise to marry her eventually .
8	Shooting a fierce look of hatred at Damian Flint beside her , striding along , his face hard , she saw a ruthless swine whose main objective was to get Rachel to be his wife so he could fulfil his ambitions and take Swift for his own .
9	" Father , " she said quietly , " Dom João has asked me to be his wife and I have accepted his keepsake .
10	It looked like a woman , but he never imagined that it could be his wife until she came close and he saw it was Tess .
11	It 's going to be his baby when it 's a good baby
12	There God undertakes to give an everlasting kingdom to the boy ‘ and I will be his Father and he shall be my Son ’ .
13	Peter Armstrong , defending , said Ganguly had pretended to be his brother because he was already facing a charge of driving with excess alcohol and did not want to be remanded in custody .
14	He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it .
15	She 's been his nurse since he was born . ’
16	She had been his nurse when he was a little boy , she had told Sally-Anne when they were preparing dinner for him one evening .
17	I am afraid I do n't know his second name , but I have been his friend since he was a boy .
18	And since we know that woman was n't likely to have been his wife because she 'd … well , because of the car crash , we 've got to decide who it could have been .
19	For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted .
20	She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession .
21	George Michael was on with Jacqueline Bisset and he confessed that she had been his pin-up and he 'd loved her from afar for years .
22	She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him .
23	And every evening , when Frith has done his day 's work and lies calm and easy in the red sky , El-ahrairah and his children and his children 's children come out of their holes and feed and play in his sight , for they are his friends and he has promised them that they can never be destroyed . "
24	Yet I am his wife and I desire him .
25	I am his wife and you are his best friend , and neither of us could …
26	These were his friends but he felt unnatural in their company , as if he were acting a part .
27	Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables .
28	However , so severe were his injuries that he was transferred almost immediately to the burns unit of Withington Hospital in Manchester .
29	With a start he realized they were his teeth and he was grinding them .
30	I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it .