Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually , at the Chancery Court in Newcastle , Langbaurgh Council obtained an injunction against his Sunday trading in the borough despite his plea that it was an infringement of his liberty . |
| 2 | " And everywhere he is in chains ! " cried the Collector urgently in his delirium , causing both young ladies to turn anxiously towards his bed but it was nothing , merely a passing fancy in his overheated brain . |
| 3 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 4 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 5 | The ball from Gascgoine to Ball the other night when he scored his great goal was a little dink just over the top , outside of his fort and it was a little one over the top of there was n't it ? |
| 6 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 7 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 8 | Molyneux , like Richmond , won his freedom as a result of his boxing and it was he , more than any other early black sportsman , who ‘ showed how prize fighting could be the means by which a man of his colour might gain prominence and a certain undeniable importance akin to a theatrical star ’ ( Farr , 1964 , p.3 ) . |
| 9 | She was aware of his body-heat and it was making her head swim . |
| 10 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 11 | These trips to the United States were to become a regular event , part of his routine as it were , and there was a sense in which he was returning home . |
| 12 | There was a feeling in the pit of his stomach and it was not hunger . |
| 13 | Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all . |
| 14 | Sadly , as the Master Bomber on a raid against Le Mans railway yards on 19/20 May 1944 , he collided with his Deputy and it was indeed ironic that they both actually marked the aiming point with their burning aircraft . |
| 15 | She could sympathize with his chagrin but it was hardly enough to keep him awake at night . |
| 16 | ‘ In those days , it was standing orders for a pilot to stay with his plane until it was definitely safe . |
| 17 | Charles agreed with his sergeant that it was . |
| 18 | I went into his room and it was pitch dark . |
| 19 | The Spencers held a dance that weekend in his honour and it was noticeable that Sarah was enthusiastic in her attentions . |
| 20 | Two injury-ravaged sides understandably lacked precision and poise but Gabbiadini was always direct in his approach and it was appropriate that he should give Sunderland the lead six minutes before the interval . |
| 21 | William L. Shirer , CBS correspondent in Berlin , noted in his diary that it was another hot weekend in a summer which had had more than its usual share of them . |
| 22 | Where this is not possible the officer dealing could show in his evidence that it was likely that the other party would be harassed , distressed or alarmed . |
| 23 | Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing . |
| 24 | Harry drew breath to deny the slur , and then said nothing after all , seeing in his heart that it was true enough . |
| 25 | He reckoned that he had built so many locomotives in his time that it was no longer necessary to undertake normal design work . |
| 26 | There was companionship in his silence because it was born of a deep reserve which required help at times to find expression . |
| 27 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 28 | This element of the second stanza creates a sensation that Tithonus now refers to himself as a completely different man to what he was in his youth as it was such a long time ago . |
| 29 | He was asked by a TODAY reporter — the first in his shop after it was revealed that Norman Lamont had spent £17.47 at a Thresher 's — what the Chancellor had bought . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what was going on in his mind but it was n't going to do him much good . |