Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 2 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 3 | It 's all part of his preparation for his new movie , A Bronx Tale . |
| 4 | So it 's all part of his warderishness . |
| 5 | It 's all part of his job , ’ she said . |
| 6 | It is good news for his firm , Chemical Discoveries ; ‘ But perhaps more importantly it will enhance our ambitions for innovating large-scale land reclamation projects to benefit underdeveloped countries . |
| 7 | If he did not know that , I do not mind him admitting it , but it is extraordinary ignorance on his part . |
| 8 | In the Eighties , he made a remarkable body of neon art and it is that side of his activity which forms an exhibition at Anthony d'Offay ( to 16 May ) . |
| 9 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 10 | Alex McLaggan and Mary have their own roof at Grandtully , even if it is next door to his father . |
| 11 | His touch remains as sure as ever and , obscure though his subject may be , it is another masterpiece from his pen . |
| 12 | For Moran it is another chapter in his long career as he equals David O'Leary 's record of 23 World Cup appearances . |
| 13 | It was all part of his punishment , to give him food he liked when it could n't be appreciated . |
| 14 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 15 | It was all part of his campaign to enable him to take part in Operation Raleigh in February this year . |
| 16 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 17 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 18 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 19 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 20 | There was more , but it was technical jargon about his physique , state of health , last known meal and so on . |
| 21 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 22 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 23 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 24 | It was another milestone in his amazing recovery since an horrific motorway smash two months ago . |