Example sentences of "his [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , great pastor , preacher , and luminous expounder of the faith though he was , and moderate though his views were on most matters concerning the relations between the Church and secular society , his most cherished views were all doomed to failure from the start : they neither moved with the times , nor stood firm in the practical conveniences of the past . |
| 2 | Smith 's job is to make people see he could care less , can do something about Britain 's problems and that his words are worth more than those of Johnny Devaluation . |
| 3 | He collapsed at Debbie 's on Wednesday night , well he fell , bumped his head sort of fall down so the doctor come yesterday , tt , and he had to stop in bed two or three days and go at the doctor 's for ten minute appointment and he bloody test and to see why he 's lost so much weight cos his legs are like that . |
| 4 | I 'm not joking , his leg his legs were about that wide right ? |
| 5 | It 's a bit dangerous driving round if his eyes are like that . |
| 6 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 7 | Looking at his reflection a child sees that he has two eyes and one nose , that his mouth is lower than his nose , his ears are at each side of his head . |
| 8 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 9 | Farnaby is at his best as a miniaturist ; his fantasias are of little account but such tiny gems as ‘ Giles Farnaby 's Dream ’ , ‘ His Rest ’ , ‘ Farnaby 's Conceit ’ and ‘ His Humour ’ are unique , and he was also a master of the art of variation-writing . |
| 10 | Tammuz would fall into hir , as if with desperation ; his cries were like those of pain . |
| 11 | I think you could 've , you could 've apacked that a bit , a bit more , to put in the er words of the day , to find out you know what was worrying him and , and what his problems were on that . |
| 12 | Hayward and his collaborators are among those to have reported this discovery in ANAS ( vol 79 , p 7842 ) ; they , and a collaborative team led by Bob Gallow of the US National Institutes of Health and Carlo Croce of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia , have shown that the myc gene is strategically placed at the breakpoint where the translocated fragment of chromosome 8 links up with chromosome 14 in lymphoma cells . |
| 13 | Mr Plumpton has the odd notion that his pupils are in some way superior to Hawkwood 's . |
| 14 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
| 15 | Yet the appointment shows how little Mr Shamir cares for America 's good opinion — and how far his thoughts are from any Arab-Israeli accommodation . |
| 16 | If his novels are in any way romantic , it is because of the melodramatic plots , whether ( as in Poor Jack or Jacob Faithful ) they have a rags-to-riches theme or whether they turn on the discovery that the humble hero ( like Percival Keene or Willy Seymour ) is really of noble birth . |