Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what was going on in his mind but it was n't going to do him much good . |
| 2 | He argues that while only a few of the Palestinian sites have been linked by archaeology with the Bible , the bulk of the names in the Yemen area are to be found stated in the Bible and that this was where Abraham , the Caravan King , had his home and it was here that the Israelites settled after they had crossed the Red Sea with Moses . |
| 3 | Robbo quite rightly got his chance and it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to fight for my place or not . |
| 4 | She could sympathize with his chagrin but it was hardly enough to keep him awake at night . |
| 5 | It was n't his wife and it was n't Eloise Brückner . |
| 6 | And he mantled his wings and reared up his head and it was not whispers or meekness or acceptance that came from him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 9 | Endill bent down and tried to reach his hand but it was too far away . |
| 10 | There was a feeling in the pit of his stomach and it was not hunger . |
| 11 | He had been writing short stories and inventing film scripts since his childhood but it was not until 1940 that one was accepted for publication by Cyril Connolly [ q.v. ] in Horizon . |
| 12 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 13 | Ewa Kuryluk , in her study of female creativity , Veronica and Her Cloth , focusses on the saint 's veil as a key symbol of the act of representation : she created the vera icon or true image of Christ 's face , when she wiped his face and it was miraculously printed on the cloth in blood , sweat and tears.5 The body of art is born of the body itself , and women have a special relation to the fecundity , through their ascribed — and actual — part in the reproductive cycle . |
| 14 | There was a smile on his face and it was still on his face when he stopped as if seized up and fell headlong in the passageway . |