Example sentences of "[vb past] that it be his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the day after we all arrived in Newark , Tibby announced that it was his birthday , and Stanford had the idea of hiring a private dining-room at the Ram … ’ |
| 2 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 3 | He stated that it was his intention to start a Salisbury delivery but great-grandmother said that whilst she would n't change , her daughter who was about to marry might be interested . |
| 4 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 5 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 6 | The integration of the farm worker into this occupational community meant that it was his prestige among his fellow workers and neighbours that mattered most to him . |
| 7 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 8 | it was Mr that posed the question to me and I understood that it was his idea |
| 9 | Mehmed II , however , angered because Molla Yegan had been an active and very vocal opponent of the siege , retorted that it was his sword , not Molla Yegan 's prayers , which had achieved the victory . |
| 10 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 11 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |