Example sentences of "it was his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought it was his due . |
| 2 | It was his 17th birthday , when family affection towards him was especially warm and confident and feelings of young manhood were rife . |
| 3 | It was his turn to visit me . |
| 4 | It was his third visit . |
| 5 | It was his return of serve that was unbelievable . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ he adds , ‘ it was his destiny . ’ |
| 7 | It was his support which perhaps influenced both Wilson rackets and View From clothing to sponsor her . |
| 8 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 9 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 10 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 11 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 12 | It was his decision , for example , to shift a military pay day to 29 September , one of the last days of fiscal 1989 , from 1 October , the beginning of fiscal 1990 . |
| 13 | It was his critics , Mr Clarke said , who had confused themselves by saying there would be one . |
| 14 | It was his job to turn difficulties into opportunities , he said . |
| 15 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 16 | Man , if it was his own home , I 'd say the man was really comfortable ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 18 | ‘ It was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations , ’ said Mrs Sisulu , whose husband , Walter , a former secretary-general of the ANC and a close friend of Mr Mandela , is to be freed from prison . |
| 19 | Pavel Mukhortov , the Russian reporter who claims to have had a close encounter with extra-terrestrials He ( Nelson Mandela ) was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 20 | On balance , it was his wish to defend sterling by interventionist methods , to check activity at home and keep down the sterling price of imports , rather than curb the flow of money , that dictated much of his policy . |
| 21 | Bethune-Baker regarded Anglo-Catholicism as part of the nonsense which it was his mission to destroy . |
| 22 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 23 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 24 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 25 | It was his first visit to Nijmegen and , although he had got his CMT 3 qualification , he had spent most of his two months at 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance checking equipment , putting up tents and doing guard duties . |
| 26 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 27 | At the Quarry church , if he attended a choral service , it was his invariable custom to leave during the singing of the last hymn . |
| 28 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 29 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |
| 30 | 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 . |