Example sentences of "that [pron] be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more that I 'm his son . |
| 2 | He said that you 'll say that I 'm his sister . |
| 3 | I understood that he was thanking me , and I tried to show him that I was his friend . |
| 4 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 5 | I admired him , I respected him and I was flattered that I was his friend . |
| 6 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 7 | Also , according to Aszal , they said they did not doubt that she was his wife . |
| 8 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 9 | She is alleged to have convinced him that she was his mother and then forced him to have sex with her . |
| 10 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 11 | Her connection with the duke is not explained , but it is possible that she was his mistress since Gloucester 's illegitimate daughter bore the same Christian name . |
| 12 | He wished very much that she was his real sister . |
| 13 | As he hopped along beside her , she hopped and sang too , to show him that she was his friend . |
| 14 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 15 | She wanted to please him , to see him smile , and tease her by calling himself the Master , and pretending that she was his slave . |
| 16 | Her connection with the duke is not explained , but it is possible that she was his mistress since Gloucester 's illegitimate daughter bore the same Christian name . |
| 17 | She might have extracted Simon 's solemn oath that if she attended as he wished , the pretence that she was his girlfriend would be dropped for once and for all , but was that the whole reason ? |
| 18 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 19 | ‘ And do n't try telling me that you 're his boss because that little toad , for a price , croaked who the complex does belong to and Enrique Armangual does n't spell Fernando Serra ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You will have demonstrated that you are his servant , for by removing yourself from the court at such a crucial hour you will have proved to him that he was right to trust you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can understand his wish for secrecy , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but I do n't see the need to adopt the charade that you were his girlfriend . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Why he should tell me from day one that you were his girlfriend . |
| 23 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 24 | He examined them from beneath pink-rimmed lids — as if checking that they were his , Trent thought . |
| 25 | It was this more than anything that impelled Havel into active opposition , and there 's little doubt that it 's his reputation as a truth-teller , a man whose word is to be trusted , that most commends him to a nation recovering from constitutional mendacity . |
| 26 | But Lennie seems to have made up his mind that it 's his midfield which needs strengthening . |
| 27 | He always makes out that it 's his idea does n't he ? |
| 28 | We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard . |
| 29 | Ann said , judicially : ‘ What she told us does n't alter the fact that he had bags of charm , but it seems that it 's his — well , his stock-in-trade … |
| 30 | This is his symbol to place on a bottle of milk to show that it is his . |