Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] his [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 2 | Each child is likely to have his own particular patterns , but it 's not necessary , or desirable , or possible , to analyse each child 's errors as thoroughly as these examples do . |
| 3 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 4 | John Coffin was no exception ; a clever and practical man , he was unable to manage his own electric oven . |
| 5 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 6 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |