Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] it was his " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’
2 For the bear because it was his thing , for the little girl because of the shouting — "
3 ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision .
4 Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) .
5 Sir Charles Webb-Bowen offered his ear to the urgent promptings of a party apparatchik ; the fact that it was his ‘ bad ’ ear , lent a certain comedy to the proceedings .
6 Fox added the conversion and it was his perfectly judged grubber kick to the corner which allowed winger Tony Marchant to pounce and score .
7 He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself .
8 He was seized with a certainty that it was his own son .
9 But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals .
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