Example sentences of "but it be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark co-wrote a book Skulduggery about his experiences searching for the Orang-hutan tribes , but it is his most recent adventure — travelling through India on the back of an elephant — which has really captured the public 's imagination . |
| 2 | Costner can act very well , but it is his presence that really counts , a little like it did for James Stewart . |
| 3 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 4 | But it is his organisational and fund-raising skills that Mr Schuller most coveted : in ten years Mr Larson doubled his church 's membership with people who are wonderfully ready to whip out their wallets . |
| 5 | At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first . |
| 6 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 7 | Mark di Suvero , over the years , has often worked in bronze — but it is his steelworks for which he is best known . |
| 8 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 9 | But it is his talent as a designer of decorative furniture and domestic accessories that is mainly responsible for Fornasetti 's enduring renown . |
| 10 | Sir Leicester may think it appropriate to keep Mr Rouncewell waiting , ‘ opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flight of ironmasters ’ , but it is his housekeeper 's son who now wields the moral authority , for he has come to remove his future daughter-in-law , the lady 's maid Rosa , from Lady Dedlock 's charge because he thinks that position is unsuitable . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman accuses me of doing that , but it is his mechanism . |
| 12 | But it is his run at Ayr last April which puts him in the picture for it showed that he had no trouble with a marathon trip as he stayed on strongly to beat Dalkey Sound carrying 11 stone in the Scottish National . |
| 13 | But it 's his own fault . |
| 14 | He 's got a rare understanding of the blues , both on acoustic and electric , but it 's his slide guitar playing that 's really earned the praise . |
| 15 | His great serve and forehand are technical merits , but it 's his drive which singles him out . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been blaming you , but it 's his fault . |
| 17 | Good God , it 's so hideous , but it 's his day . |
| 18 | There is a rubber plant and another one — he does n't know what it 's called but it 's his favourite . |
| 19 | But it 's his eyesight |
| 20 | I du n no if he 's er , but it 's his end , I do n't know if it 's his house , I ca n't remember if it was his house , but at that end of the street . |
| 21 | He 's usually teaching chemistry but it 's his first year of teaching maths |
| 22 | Rank could blame the government all he liked , but it was his own policies which had antagonized the Americans , alienated audiences and significantly increased the company 's overdraft . |
| 23 | But it was his heart , and as everyone said , you can never tell with hearts . |
| 24 | Getting in would be hazardous ; to say nothing of getting out , but it was his only chance . |
| 25 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 26 | Their fortunes were begun by Johann , a weaver , in the fourteenth century , but it was his great-great-grandson , Ulrich , who became banker to the Habsburgs , winning concessions for silver mines in the Tirol and copper mines in Hungary . |
| 27 | His plan was certainly crazy and almost definitely doomed to failure but it was his only option . |
| 28 | But it was his two spells at Rangers , where he was affectionately nicknamed ‘ Bud ’ that the mercurial Johnson established a reputation as a daring winger with a short emotional fuse . |
| 29 | But it was his experience as a Sunday-school teacher which left him wondering how discipline could be maintained with older boys and how they could be kept in touch with the Church once they became wage-earners and left the Sunday school . |
| 30 | In his diaries he looks forward to future success , but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security . |