Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 2 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 3 | ‘ The man in the field must be prepared to work on his own and work conscientiously . |
| 4 | However , the patient may be able to return to his own job , when he is sufficiently recovered . |
| 5 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 6 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 7 | All this is supposed to contrast with his own offering , which appears to be introduced with the words " " I speke in prose " " ( II : 96 ) although in fact his tale of a noble woman and wife , Custance ( Constance ) , is told in rhyme-royal stanzas . |
| 8 | ‘ The credit grantor not only requires confirmation of the existing loan commitments of a business prospect ; he also needs details of previous repayment patterns in order to assess how a commercial borrower is likely to cope with his own repayment structure . ’ |
| 9 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 10 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 11 | As a result , the copier ( the student ) becomes aware of the discriminative cues and so he is able to act as his own critic , thus advancing his learning with his own efforts , without further need of a teacher or critic . |
| 12 | The learned judge held not , for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong . |
| 13 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 14 | Irish try scoring hero Michael Galwey was reluctant to dwell on his own prospects of making the trip . |
| 15 | This being so , Basil 's work amongst teachers extended well beyond the technical and creative considerations of teaching Art : to influencing and deepening the quality of personal relationships amongst those around him , especially through the warm human atmosphere he was able to imbue into his own , uniquely directed , residential courses . |