Example sentences of "be that [prep] his " in BNC.
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1 | The indications are that throughout his time as chairman Howson put into the factory a good deal of family money ( his wife was wealthy by inheritance ) . |
2 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
3 | Another noteworthy aspect of his success has been that throughout his career he has rarely enjoyed the luxury of playing alongside another bowler of similar pace . |
4 | When they heard this they cried out with one accord that they would do his bidding , and go out with him and fight under his banner , for certain they were that by his good fortune the Moors would be overthrown . |
5 | The most obvious explanation for this is that during his years away from home , he would develop a large number of relatively weak ties : in such circumstances , the in-group alternant would cease to have any function for him and so could be abandoned . |
6 | The problem is that on his own terms ‘ many ’ may conclude quite the reverse , however much they share his view of the Iraqi regime . |
7 | The result was that on his arrival at Baden Napoleon III found himself surrounded by all the German rulers : the Kings of Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony and Hanover , the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxe-Weimar plus the Dukes of Nassau and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . |
8 | One fact in the situation , which later emerged from the gossip of Baldwin , Anselm 's man of business , was that on his way to the meeting at Gloucester , Rufus had visited Wilton . |
9 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |
10 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
11 | In such cases the most that an employer could hope for was that by his treatment of his workers he could obtain some minimal loyalty . |
12 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
13 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |