Example sentences of "but it was [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 2 | But it was during his tenure that the College Council debarred them . |
| 3 | But it was on his return to the West Coast that he was to suffer most discomfiture . |
| 4 | Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her . |
| 5 | He was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and in 1837 he was involved in C. R. Cockerell 's construction of their new headquarters in Lothbury , but it was with his railway work , which he obtained through his important financial connections , that he was particularly prolific . |
| 6 | He had acquired in effect a veto over all grants or sales of land to the church , but it was against his political and financial interests to enforce this ban . |
| 7 | He slapped at it with his other hand , but it was beneath his thumbnail before he could get to it . |
| 8 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |