Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled that Ian Duthie , a graduate of Edinburgh University , -was one of his tutors in ‘ English 101 ’ ( a compulsory subject ) , who provided interesting connections with his father 's accent and the general Scottishness of Westmount . |
| 2 | Anthony put an arm gently around her shoulders and urged her upstairs back to bed as though she were one of his charges from the orphanage . |
| 3 | Mrs Molesworth was paddling and her husband was poking at the stones because , he said , fossils were one of his hobbies . |
| 4 | He had opposed the Boer war and South African issues were one of his major concerns as an MP . |
| 5 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 6 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 7 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 8 | Was one of his hobbies , shooting , consistent with that ? |
| 9 | However , later David did come and see me to ask if his group could play on the school steps at the PTA fête which was to be held in the summer , so I suppose that was one of his first public engagements with his group . |
| 10 | This was one of his three sixes . |
| 11 | By the age of thirteen , Worrell 's ability was obvious and , still in short trousers , he was playing top-grade cricket in his school first team , modelling himself on Derek Sealy , who was one of his masters . |
| 12 | During lunch Joe kept us entertained with anecdotes about his friends and contributors — old Wyndham Lewis , half blind , who was one of his art critics , and who , when taken to eat at L'Escargot , just pushed his gourmet food around on his plate . |
| 13 | On coming down Eyre taught English for two years at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Blackburn , where Russel Harty was one of his pupils . |
| 14 | This job was one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 15 | Charles also delighted in the works of Saint Augustine , and the De Civitate Dei was one of his favourite texts . |
| 16 | As he grew older , Richard II became more assertive , also became a patron of the arts and culture — Geoffrey Chaucer was one of his favourites — and that did not please the Duke of Gloucester , who with others began a civil war to remove the King 's favourites from Court . |
| 17 | It was one of his most fertile periods — he was n't a great letter-writer — too polite — he said she understood him in the letter I — I — saw — he said — ’ |
| 18 | He was a prominent member of the Prague city council and the placing of railings around the trees in the city was one of his ideas . |
| 19 | Even before he reached his nineteenth birthday , he had begun to make a name as a choreographer , and one of the works he made then is still danced : only a trifle , but full of the wit that was one of his gifts . |
| 20 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 21 | This was one of his enduring pieces , Beauty and the Beast . |
| 22 | It was one of his qualities which his patients appreciated . |
| 23 | After all — the man was one of his best friends , was n't he ? |
| 24 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 25 | At the top she was luckily seen by the farmer , who came striding to meet her , letting out an exclamation as he saw that the object in her arms was one of his lambs . |
| 26 | It was weeks later before he realised it was one of his team , heading for a dram in Dunbar High Street . |
| 27 | Justinian comes close to saying that this was one of his favourite legal devices . |
| 28 | She was one of his favourite leading ladies . |
| 29 | Hartley Coleridge was one of his devoted friends and admirers and said ‘ Of all landscape painters he was the most literal , the most absolute copyist of the objects on his retina . |
| 30 | People will always need pH , was one of his predictions . |