Example sentences of "was [adv] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the power should be exercised solely for the financial gain of the remaining partners the expulsion will not be upheld — as in Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 , where the motive for the purported removal of Mr Blisset was rather his remaining partners ' desire to acquire his share at a low valuation as provided in the partnership deed than any misconduct on his part . |
| 2 | From the time Quinn ran out of that apartment , this was wholly his affair . |
| 3 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 4 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 5 | But what drove him on was less his outsize libido than his desire to prove a point and win public acclaim : ‘ Everyone thinks I 'm going to die . |
| 6 | ‘ This was obviously his way of expressing his displeasure , ’ Mr Woodcock said . |
| 7 | Ace demanded , freeing himself from the constraints of his seatbelt as the jet , now airborne , levelled off , and smiling at the stewardess who was bending over him with familiarity , offering what was obviously his normal choice of drink . |
| 8 | People at Etten had recently commented on his habit of walking along while staring straight ahead , and this was perhaps his protection against unfriendly glances . |
| 9 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 10 | He was an undoubted intellectual heavyweight ; he was a creative minister interested in political ideas ; and , above all , he was entirely his own man . |
| 11 | ‘ The summoning of the Ecumenical Council ’ , wrote the editor of his diary , ‘ was entirely his own initiative and in capite under his own jurisdiction ’ ( Roncalli , 1965 , p. 345 ) . |
| 12 | He also knew that this disastrous episode was entirely his own fault and could easily have been avoided . |
| 13 | Oldfield said it was entirely his fault , but coming so soon after the Woodfull affair , the crowd went berserk again . |
| 14 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , it was his money , was n't it , and I was only his niece . |
| 16 | It was only his nose . |
| 17 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 18 | Party Politics became Gaselee 's first winner in 1992 and was only his 11th success of the season . |
| 19 | In May 1975 , at Wembley , the site of Haffey 's worst nightmare , Scotland entrusted the role of goalkeeper to Stewart Kennedy , a keeper of such startling mediocrity that many Scotland fans believed it was only his association with Rangers that led to him being chosen . |
| 20 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 21 | It was only his legs . |
| 22 | No doubt this was only his manner . |
| 23 | In Denise 's case , " He did n't really know it was only his idea . |
| 24 | Or perhaps that was only his imagination . |
| 25 | Reluctantly , and stressing this was only his " personal " opinion , nothing to do with the British government , the British ambassador replied that a crackdown could n't work , that is the Shah was now forced to withdraw to a naval base , he would soon have to leave altogether anyway , but that if he did now leave Iran , the chances of his coming back were slight . |
| 26 | When Lynch beat Jackie Brown ( of Collyhurst ) at Belle Vue , Manchester , overwhelmingly in two rounds in September 1935 , it was only his third contest outside Scotland in five years of professional boxing . |
| 27 | It was only his tense state that made the crash sound so loud . |
| 28 | His sister did n't need anger at the moment , and it was only his concern that had allowed it to escape . |
| 29 | There was only his mouth — relaxed , sensual — the intent in his eyes , the faint , elusive fragrance of his cologne … |
| 30 | It was only his second international but again out half Eric Elwood stole the show with a marvellous and mature performance . |