Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 2 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
| 3 | I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years . |
| 4 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 5 | The confrontation between President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and opposition forces , including those who had once been part of his regime as fellow nationalists , continued throughout October . |
| 6 | Their actions are part of his reconstruction and interpretation of a once potent ritual , part of his own ‘ Vitalizing of the Classics ’ . |
| 7 | He 's the local landowner — those fields at the back of these outbuildings are part of his estate . |
| 8 | Bradl greatly appreciates the men who are part of his team , especially tuner Sepp Schlogl . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 11 | Down whose son had been bestman at his wedding . |
| 12 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 13 | Mr Onanuga admits that there are aspects of his story which do not appear to add up . |
| 14 | How are matters with his wife 's family ? ’ |
| 15 | We 're part of his family . |
| 16 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 17 | are sort of his type of player |
| 18 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 19 | When Wood retired in 1968 ( by which time he had become head porter ) he gave an account of his 35 years of service ; what follows are extracts from his address , in his own words : |
| 20 | There was nothing so dead as an old love , and what they had shared had only been desire on his part . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 23 | The North Korean leader Kim Il-sung is 80 years old , and there has been speculation about his health . |
| 24 | There had been speculation over his future after he was dropped by the South-West . |
| 25 | Mr Winner , most of whose efforts with the camera thus far have been studies of his girlfriend , actress Jenny Seagrove , was paid £200 by the book 's publishers for his Gielgud picture . |
| 26 | Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There had been fears about his position after he met namesake Albert Reynolds , the Eire Premier , a few weeks ago . |
| 29 | If word reached Meredith Putt that there had been witnesses to his crime Seb would be in great danger . |
| 30 | Among papers of Hamish Henderson , C.1947–87 , are drafts of his translation of Gramsci 's Lettere dal Carcere . |