Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've heard of the rogue male , I am his modern descendant , the junk male . |
| 2 | I am his interior decorator . ’ |
| 3 | I am His chosen instrument … |
| 4 | Because suddenly he has me ( it 's mad , he kidnapped me ) laughing at him and pouring out his tea , as if I 'm his best girl-friend . |
| 5 | Victor fusses over his gas-ring like I 'm his long-lost son . |
| 6 | I 'm his veterinary nurse . |
| 7 | And anyhow , I 'm his blue-eyed boy . |
| 8 | Even though he was so much older , I was his first girlfriend , he was my first boyfriend . " |
| 9 | ‘ I was his good girl , the girl to take to book signings , to introduce to Norman Mailer , ’ she says . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I was his best friend . |
| 11 | I am his wife and you are his best friend , and neither of us could … |
| 12 | You are his dearest friend , and must act accordingly . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 're his one weakness . |
| 14 | The trouble is , ’ she went on , ‘ Mr Simkin would n't believe it when they tried to tell him — as you said yourself , you 're his right hand man . |
| 15 | She treated him as if she were his prep-school matron . |
| 16 | You were his only son . |
| 17 | A foreigner accepted as if you were his own father . |
| 18 | He 's thought of changing his will and his investments — but she is his only daughter . |
| 19 | She was his youthful mistake : she is in the past tense . |
| 20 | She was small and fair like her name , shy like her mother , and his favourite child , dearer even than Thomas , for daughters are more fragile and vulnerable than sons , and she was his first daughter . |
| 21 | Perhaps she was his first wife . |
| 22 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 23 | I had n't asked but I just knew she was his only offspring , and I 'd lay odds there was n't a Mrs McInnes any more . |
| 24 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 25 | I suppose it was because she was his only daughter . |
| 26 | He wished very much that she was his real sister . |
| 27 | After all , she was his personal assistant . |
| 28 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 29 | In part at least , she was his returning shade , and that shade was clamouring now to be embraced . |
| 30 | Perhaps she was his intended bride . |