Example sentences of "it was his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was his sister Victoria . |
| 32 | It was his sister who found the bodies . |
| 33 | It was his anorak that first attracted me . |
| 34 | It was his inspiration to claim that ‘ At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls Royce comes from the electric clock . ’ |
| 35 | It was his ghost ! |
| 36 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 37 | It was his bed , and he would lie on it . |
| 38 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 39 | It was his tone that got me . |
| 40 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 41 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 42 | It was his posture , however , that was most striking . |
| 43 | And he said I think he said it was his uncle lived in . |
| 44 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 45 | It was his way . |
| 46 | He was an exacting colleague , and college meetings lasted for hours as he reminisced about the past ; but it was his way of educating the fellows in the traditions of the college . |
| 47 | He winked again as if it was his way of dismissing visitors . |
| 48 | I was to learn that it was his way of controlling his temper . |
| 49 | ‘ It was his way of doing a Christian act . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ It was his way of testing you out — you know , one practice to deal with the cow and the other to treat the calf . |
| 51 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 52 | It was his fantasy . |
| 53 | It was his certificate , fully made out and legal . |
| 54 | It was crucial to his remarkable success in winning the nomination of his party ; without that asset it is most unlikely that he would have secured his narrow victory over Gerald Ford , but it was his insistence on remaining an outsider in spirit that limited his accomplishments in office . |
| 55 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 56 | It was his success in mobilizing men , arms , ships , and provisions which was most characteristic of Peter 's reign . |
| 57 | It was his pair of puppies who proved to be his downfall . |
| 58 | It was his attitude to women that shocked me . ’ |
| 59 | It was his attitude towards Dawn , treating her with such compassion and even apologising for her . |
| 60 | It was his goal that knocked United out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Atkinson added : ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |