Example sentences of "who were his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But who were his pursuers ? |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is to these two writers that we owe almost all that we know of El Cid 's life from those who were his contemporaries . |
| 3 | Along the narrow causeway of the Monitz dyke , the pursuit flagged ; he and the handful of cuirassiers who were his companions duly gained the bank of the lake , a frozen bog of mud , grass and ice . |
| 4 | It was the most important thing he had ever done in his life , he had told Margie Llewellyn , and across a nation the rich and famous , the elegant and the glittering society women who were his clients wholeheartedly echoed the sentiment . |
| 5 | Who were his early influences in this quarter ? |
| 6 | For the immediate future his influence contracted and was conspicuous only among the small group of monks who were his heirs in following his manner of prayer and meditation , and in collecting his works and his words . |
| 7 | He is elected , and his ‘ surplus ’ votes are shared out , in due proportion , among those candidates who were his backers ' second choice . |
| 8 | But he had repented of his impulse as swiftly , she knew , aghast at himself that he could consider treating her so roughly , a young woman from the family who were his friends , almost his own kin , his people . |
| 9 | The professor helped me very much , and other important scientists who were his friends helped me , too . |
| 10 | Those who were his companions in arms must have known such moments . |
| 11 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 12 | Louis reallocated Orléans and Blois to the brothers Odo and William , men who were his own mother 's kin and also allies of Bernard , and probably Tours to Vivian , one of the local nobility . |
| 13 | Two men who were his own uncles . |