Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collar was certainly the junior member of the partnership , but those who know his mathematical style are well able to perceive his many areas of contribution to the book . |
| 2 | The second clause , that if a knows that p then a believes that p ( we can read this as , seems minimal , and the third , that if a knows that p then his belief that p is justified , is there in order to prevent any lucky guess from counting as knowledge if the guesser is sufficiently confident to believe his own guess . |
| 3 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 4 | The couple have a home in Hollywood and a farm in Vermont , but Michael , who is widely regarded in Hollywood as a workaholic , found it hard to put family first and is now keen to produce his own films as well as act in them . |
| 5 | Terrestrial telly appearances have been spasmodic in recent years , but Allen is currently busy filming his own series , I Love Keith Allen , for BSB . |
| 6 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 7 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 8 | Working as a teacher , he was always able to choose his own subjects . |
| 9 | Taking the belt and feeling the weight of it , Sam was hardly able to believe his own eyes . |
| 10 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 11 | Hoccleve was a scribe by profession , and was therefore able to write his own confession , but the difficulty in considering the case of Margery Kempe is that she was illiterate , and dictated her account of her life to two different scribes , one a poor writer and the other a priest . |
| 12 | Except for Robin , who had a slight talent for painting , they were plodders , who would never make a mark on the world ; and even Robin was too unsteady to forge his own way . |