Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 2 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 3 | His right , however , had been transmitted to him through his mother , and it was this transmission through the female , later explained as the inability of a woman to pass on a claim which , as a woman , she could not herself exercise , which worked against Edward 's ambition . |
| 4 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 6 | Eventually Mr Holdsworth was summoned to attend a Council committee at which he was presented with a list of 26 disciplinary offences , none of which had been raised with him before his suspension . |
| 7 | CHARLES CLIFFE needs little introduction having been known to you for his splendid writing and demonstrations . |
| 8 | ’ The committee heard evidence from Stemp and from Worcestershire and were satisfied that he had not knowingly taken amphetamines and that they had been administered to him without his knowledge , approval or authority . |
| 9 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 10 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 11 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 12 | In a moment we 'll be speaking to him about his son 's plight , but first we go over to Switzerland where our reporter , John Marshall , has been following the story . |
| 13 | Of course , the man will take the major decisions , and be supported in them by his wife ; and obeyed , if you like . |
| 14 | He had been led to it by his experience of the numinous , and by the exercise of his imagination . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 16 | It 's been forced on him by his doctor . |
| 17 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 18 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 19 | Many , ranging from large estates to small-holdings in towns , were given by him to his French supporters and to those English whom he could tempt over to settle in northern France . |
| 20 | Tears misted her eyes as she stared back at him , wishing she did n't feel so confused , and heard him curse softly , as though the words were torn from him against his will . |
| 21 | Implexion had stood in the mud of the canyon , the pathetic tents being demolished around him by his militia . |
| 22 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 23 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 24 | All this deceit was being forced upon her by his … his paranoia . |
| 25 | As his disciples were identified with him in his ministry and experienced the healing powers of the new age operating through them , so they became partakers of the Kingdom . |
| 26 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 27 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 28 | Early claims the money is owed to him for his work on the record , the biggest selling rap album of all time , having shifted in excess of 20 million copies . |
| 29 | the world is moving round him in his dream , |
| 30 | Freud 's concept of instinct is discussed by him in his paper ‘ Instincts and their Vicissitudes ’ ( 1915 ) . |