Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 2 | The principal injury which he had suffered was to his hip . |
| 3 | On top of this the only action Rick had seen was on his furthest rod , away in the corner by the dam out-flow away from our movements . |
| 4 | He was , though , still unwilling to put up with people who he felt were beneath his intellectual level . |
| 5 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 6 | Back to his best Billy Lancaster , who goes from strength to strength each season , beat the talented Mark Jones , last year 's runner-up , by 21–16 , while Bob Severs was at his best to beat Michael Ryan 21–7 . |
| 7 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 8 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 9 | The replacement of Mr Burbulis , which the decree said was at his own request , will go some way to placating those in both the liberal and conservative camps annoyed by his somewhat high-handed manner . |
| 10 | The sense of urgency , of anger , of relentless pursuit , did not leave him but he felt once more the bitterness of inadequacy , the realisation that the task he had undertaken was beyond his personal power . |
| 11 | Peters was at his legs now , holding in his own transformed innards with one hand , and clutching at Cardiff 's leg with the other . |
| 12 | While Don Peters was on his feet on the second day of the meeting of the European Planning Committee , explaining his plan to rejuvenate the ailing British vehicle division , Fred Clasper was also on his feet setting in motion his scheme to put the final nail in its coffin . |
| 13 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 14 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 15 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 16 | First he pointed out his own editorial cubicle , then the adjacent one which he explained was for his personal assistant , Carmel Bedford . |