Example sentences of "[be] his [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock 's gravest mistake as Labour leader may prove to be his decision to announce his departure before the election postmortem had even got underway . |
| 2 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Khasbulatov 's source of power in the past has been his ability to manipulate it . |
| 4 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
| 5 | The obverse of his strength as party leader in the peculiar circumstances of British politics today has been his inability to present himself as a national leader . |
| 6 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 7 | Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross . |
| 8 | Mark Kelly seems to have impressed everyone who saw him play this preseason , I hope he get 's his chance to prove himself , Ireland could do backup for Dennis Irwin at right back ( cue the flames for mentioning a Scum player ) |
| 9 | It 's his day to visit his mother in Hastings . |
| 10 | ‘ How 's his wife taking it ? ’ |
| 11 | A measure of Bryan Gould 's courage is his decision to put himself forward for both leader and deputy leader . |
| 12 | And what makes it such an invigorating saga is his ability to let his idiosyncratic Broadway denizens talk for themselves . |
| 13 | His one superiority is his ability to keep me here . |
| 14 | One of the marks of a competent lawyer is his ability to know what gaps there are in the facts of his case . |
| 15 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 16 | That is his plan to dismember Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and to privatise the local inspectorate of schools so that inspectors are picked and paid by their own schools . |
| 17 | Here is his chance to ensure they keep out of mischief . |
| 18 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 19 | Sir , Such is his eagerness to correct me that Pierre dom Engels ( Letters , 18th/25th December ) mis-attributes Antonia Fraser 's own comment to her aunt , who , as I correctly said , was under the firm impression that Book Tokens were for young children only . |
| 20 | Another of Polgar 's battles is his refusal to allow his girls to play in women 's tournaments , with the exception of the Olympics , where Zsuzsa triumphed . |
| 21 | A dog 's defensive instinct is his need to protect himself and the other members of his pack , which in these days usually includes the family unit . |
| 22 | It is his intention to run one every quarter if there is enough interest from enthusiasts in the south . |
| 23 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 24 | What was his name do you remember it ? |
| 25 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 26 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
| 27 | I had helped him , he said , now it was his obligation to help me . |
| 28 | It was his turn to visit me . |
| 29 | By the time he reached the gallery his mother was at the far end of the broad corridor , but she was n't going into her room or into his room , she was making for the attic stairs , and now it was his turn to raise his eyebrows . |
| 30 | Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs . |