Example sentences of "his [noun] [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 2 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 3 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 4 | Already the shadows were receding from the room and she could see the darkness where his eyes were and the lighter line of his beloved lips . |
| 5 | He wondered what hIs condition was and whether he would survive . |
| 6 | The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva . |
| 7 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 8 | There would be no room for indecision : the task had been detailed , everyone knew what his job was and how he fitted in . |
| 9 | One man had asked him what his job was and he said that he was an author . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , like how big his cock was and so on . |
| 11 | I asked him what his name was and he said , ‘ Tommy Jones ’ or something , and I said , ‘ Who lives next door ? ’ and he gave me another name , and I said , ‘ Oh , no she does n't . |
| 12 | The old lady frowned at him and asked him sharply what his name was and he sat up straight but he answered cheekily . |
| 13 | Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that . |
| 14 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 15 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 16 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 17 | Kenneth Fulcher demanded to know where his wife was and confronted Kevin Leonard on the stairs of his home . |
| 18 | Daryl , who gave the jury a demonstration of the backward swing , said : ‘ I asked him what his handicap was and he did n't appear to understand . |
| 19 | To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage . |
| 20 | So , looking forward , he can see where he is going and , simultaneously looking backwards , he can see exactly where his pursuer is and what is the most appropriate avoiding action . |
| 21 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 22 | ‘ We have no idea who his father was and his mother , while not actually wild , was roaming around the compound for weeks , ’ Dave said . |
| 23 | Only June and Ethel knew who his father was and now they were both gone and they had not told anyone . |
| 24 | I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle . |
| 25 | They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification . |
| 26 | Er no I just think his dad is and they 've just picked it up from their dad , you know . |
| 27 | His ego was and is such that the outside world can neither add to nor subtract from it . |
| 28 | His mother was and must still be such a one . |
| 29 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |