Example sentences of "his [noun] [was/were] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Montgomerie — whose staple shot is , of course , the fade — settled into his address , it was clear that his intention was to flight the ball right to left . |
| 2 | His appointment was in part a result of the amicable Anglo-French gathering which took place at Paris and Poissy in June july 1313 for the knighting of the sons of Philip the Fair . |
| 3 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |
| 4 | Williams later acknowledged that his thesis was in fact the same one as propounded by C.L.R.James in his book ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ . |
| 5 | While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars … |
| 6 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 7 | Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications . |