Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of William Wordsworth we are fortunate in possessing his own very full account of the first part of his life , roughly down to the mid-1790s , in the ‘ Poem ’ addressed to Coleridge which we now know as The Prelude . |
| 2 | He is concerned with fitting his own idea of attractiveness , rather than girls ' ideas of attractiveness . |
| 3 | You 'd be quite comfortable , I assure you , ’ the man went on , and by his pleading tone Breeze guessed that his employer was used to having his own way — and raised Cain when he did n't get it . |
| 4 | His statement was really an invitation , an offer for her to think about , delivered in the confident style of one who was used to having his own way with women . |
| 5 | Rhee was concerned with consolidating his own power base , building up the strength of his regime , securing American economic and military assistance , and with achieving the unification of Korea under his leadership : this would be the crowning attainment of his long struggle . |
| 6 | One wonders how he was capable of sustaining his own sexual performance . |
| 7 | He was capable of composing his own songs and of writing verse in both French and Provençal . |
| 8 | Johnson was an explosive winger , an athlete with such a burst of natural speed that he once competed in the Powderhall Sprint and was capable of holding his own against international sprinters . |
| 9 | For most of his life , doctors had assumed that the man was incapable of making his own insulin in the cells of his pancreas . |
| 10 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |