Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he think his chef was going to be pleased with his achievement ? |
| 2 | Secondly , an examiner tends to be grudging in his marks for book-work questions , which he knows do not require much intelligence in the answering . |
| 3 | There must be very many such incidents in which his influence has made itself felt in the West Riding ; and many staff and children who , without knowing it , have cause to be grateful for his work for them . |
| 4 | He was going to be late for his appointment with Crowther and the Monroe girl . |
| 5 | He walked quickly down the road anxious not to be late for his appointment which could lead to an important contract . |
| 6 | He walked quickly down the road anxious not to be late for his appointment which would lead to an important contract . |
| 7 | He walked quickly down the road anxious not to be late for his appointment which could lead to an important contract . |
| 8 | He walked quickly down the road anxious not to be late for his appointment . |
| 9 | Local Liberal Party records bear him out in his assertion of this fixity of purpose and he would appear to be correct in his estimation that : |
| 10 | Now , he was a member of a church where Christ had liberated everyone , to be equal in His sight . |
| 11 | The very air seemed to be alive with his anger . |
| 12 | During his next sermon he said he would leave Kidderminster rather than cause them to be guilty of his murder . |
| 13 | Where a partner dies before the action is commenced , or later but before judgment , his personal representatives will need to be joined if any judgment is to be enforceable against his estate . |
| 14 | He was angry enough to be violent in his defence of her , angry enough to be jealous when she kept out of his way . |
| 15 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 16 | But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury . |
| 17 | Rachel said huskily , walking to his bedside and trying not to be alarmed by his appearance as she hugged and kissed him . |
| 18 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 19 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 20 | He no longer asked to be relieved of his archbishopric . |
| 21 | Benedict himself , who had stayed the previous night , had driven himself over there in his phaeton , glad to be relieved of his cousin 's irksome company . |
| 22 | Kalman Lörincz to be relieved of his post as Commander of the Hungarian Army . |
| 23 | In early August the Minister of War , General Castelló , had had to be relieved of his post , suffering from psychological exhaustion . |
| 24 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 25 | They appeared to be nervous of his presence and left by taxi before finishing their drinks . |
| 26 | But who was to be general in his place ? ’ |
| 27 | The second stream speaks of the Lord now delivered from the limitations and particularity of human life to be present to his people at all times and places . |
| 28 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 29 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 30 | It is impossible for any glider pilot to make a high cloud climb and to be sure of his position . |