Example sentences of "be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am his because he created me ! |
| 2 | As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred , I realised that that voice had been his . |
| 3 | Latvia 's loss had not been his — or Britain 's — gain . |
| 4 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 5 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 6 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 7 | The tent that was discovered had clearly been occupied by Bonington ; it contained his possessions and therefore leaves the possibility that the notebook could have been his as well as Joe 's or Pete 's . |
| 8 | The smell of disinfectant was strongest in the little room that had once been his . |
| 9 | The soybean sting in Chicago had been his . |
| 10 | The whole setting is thoroughly authenticated and everything leads nicely into Frank 's deep resentment as a worker of Polish extraction gets the promotion that should have been his . |
| 11 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 12 | Then — if this girl 's story is true — we must regain the inheritance that should have been his . ’ |
| 13 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 14 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 15 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 16 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 17 | She wanted a photograph , a letter , a book that had been his . |
| 18 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 19 | She had always been his . |
| 20 | I mention the white van I think was following me — it could have been his , checking on my performance . |
| 21 | After all , it must have crossed his mind — just once — that the timing of their lovemaking made it possible for Thomas to have been his ? |
| 22 | Their success has also been his . |
| 23 | The pork-chop-shaped biscuits are his , and the sesame-flavoured , yours . ’ |
| 24 | Reading the report , it is clear that many of the ideas in it about people 's perception of risks are his . |
| 25 | He claims that , while the alloxan experiments may have been conducted by Clark , the ideas and conclusions are his . |
| 26 | Judy Ledgerwood , at Germana van Eck until 13 March , makes abstractions very different from Mr Ross 's but suffused as are his with notions of the landscape . |
| 27 | They are not just available to him , they are his . |
| 28 | The descriptions , definitions , accounts , and assessments received by the agency are his . |
| 29 | The self-avowed falsificationist Popper says as much in the passage quoted on p.44 , where the italics are his . |
| 30 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |