Example sentences of "his [noun sg] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So despite his record being at No. 6 and getting played 15 times on Radio One last week , Felix has not made one appearance anywhere . |
| 2 | He was lying on a bed , placed between two open windows , his head being without any cap or covering of any sort , while his grey locks were literally floating in the wind , for , although in July , it was cold and blowing weather . |
| 3 | Roger Sweeney 's book will enable anyone contemplating adding a snake of the genus Thamnophis to their collection to avoid all the common pitfalls , his knowledge being of the practical sort gleaned from his position as livestock manager at Surrey-based Birdworld . |
| 4 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 5 | Immediately a very helpful female ATCO identified the Aircoupe ( its pilot now concentrating his whole being on keeping straight and level in the pouring rain and turbulent IMC conditions ) as being overhead Farnborough , and gave radar headings towards White Waltham , a cloudbreak at around 800 feet and a passable landing . |
| 6 | Ben eased forward until his face was pressed against the glass , watching Gosse slow his breathing and focus his whole being upon the blade resting only a hand 's length from his stomach . |
| 7 | I suggested that the evidence seemed , in the context of language as rescue , to promise a whole new set of preoccupations , to a point where even those undertakings Stephen had given to rework the stiff clay of his race , even these can seem unduly influenced by his still being among them . |
| 8 | Ghastly about his dad being in there — the only person Vern 's got in the whole wide world , and he 's shut up in there and not allowed to come out . |