Example sentences of "be [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 2 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 3 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 4 | He replaced the receiver , having been given his new instructions . |
| 5 | Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor . |
| 6 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 7 | Police believe Mr McEvoy had been using his blue Ford Sierra car , registered D234 HAJ , on Saturday evening . |
| 8 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 9 | A judge at the Old Bailey has been explaining his full reasons for stopping the trial of the three retired detectives who were accused of tampering with evidence in the case of the Birmingham Six . |
| 10 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |
| 11 | If it had n't been done his other hip would have gone and his spine would have been twisted . |
| 12 | He 's been writing his latest book there . |
| 13 | An important figure in the stimulation of James ' intellect , Constantine had been developing his own political ideas whilst residing in the industrial heartland of Lancashire , and he now requested James ' help in the formation of his autobiography . |
| 14 | By Jason Burt OLD soldier Bill Brownbill , 102 , has been granted his dearest wish a brand new bath with help from your ECHO . |
| 15 | OLD soldier Bill Brownbill , 102 , has been granted his dearest wish a new bath with help from your Echo . |
| 16 | Erm when they tested it they said that one was near to failure anyway and that was what was , been causing his bad heads and it was just by pure coincidence that bloke hitting him , that brought it to light . |
| 17 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 18 | Organisers of next week 's grass court tournament in Halle , Germany , in which Agassi is due to play , have been told his injured wrist is now free of pain . |
| 19 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 20 | Ranulf knew his master had been scribbling his own memoranda , trying to make sense of the mystery which confronted them . |
| 21 | A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday . |
| 22 | Today he 's been celebrating his thirtieth birthday , but quietly , in his stable . |
| 23 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 24 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 25 | In the intervening years , Doctor Ross has been perfecting his left-handed guitar technique , and writing his own songs , the best known being ‘ Cat Squirrel ’ , recorded by Cream on their first album . |
| 26 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 27 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 28 | President Gorbachev 's been facing his worst Mayday parade and the first one not to be completely controlled by the communist party . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Rob had been having his own separate grapple with dismal failure . |
| 30 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |