Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 2 | To his dad , they went back to Berlin in nineteen seventy for a visit cos his mum was in a home which |
| 3 | He began by admitting that there was a crisis of power , but he denied that his administration was without a programme to overcome it . |
| 4 | His car was in a line of traffic travelling towards Leominster when it was involved in a collision with Mr Haigh 's car , which was in front . |
| 5 | His mind was in a fog . |
| 6 | His mind was in a whirl and he was worried . |
| 7 | His marriage was in a mess but , to give him credit , he never once uttered the words , ‘ My wife does n't understand me . ’ |
| 8 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 9 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 10 | The heat of his body was like a magnet and she knew she would not have been able to move her hand even if he had let her . |
| 11 | Moreover , the thin weal of the scar along his cheek was of a kind to tell its own story . |
| 12 | His handshake was like a caress . |
| 13 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |
| 14 | Using the terminology reminiscent of contemporary descriptions of madness ( cf. those by the thirteenth-century encyclopaedist Bartholomaeus Anglicus ) Hoccleve relates what others said of him : that he was incapable of sober reasoning , that his brain was buckish , that his gait was like a roe 's , darting hither and thither , and that his eyes were constantly in motion . |
| 15 | His name was on a list of prominent party members who died in the past year . |
| 16 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 17 | He had a Lurex shirt of Cherry 's belted round him with a floral scarf , and his grin was like a piano keyboard . |
| 18 | Because of his superior height , his head was on a level with hers and she could feel his breath stirring her hair . |
| 19 | His head was like a dustbin , with all sorts of rubbish mingling in it , and all of it eventually spewing out of his mouth . |
| 20 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 21 | His father was in a nut-house . |
| 22 | Sometimes she admitted to herself that she hated Davis , but his passion was like a drug which she was unable to resist . |
| 23 | His wish was for a person to ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 24 | Without breaking his stride Rincewind ducked again , so low that his chin was on a level with his knees , while a fist like a log sizzled through the air by his ear . |
| 25 | Unfortunately he was standing right beside the door with the new aerial mounted on it and his voice was within a gnat 's whisker of being raised a few octaves . |
| 26 | He bellowed something which Jess could n't catch , but she knew his rage was at a peak . |
| 27 | His address was on a lot of his belongings . |
| 28 | His touch was like a doctor 's , firm and impersonal . |
| 29 | The constituency that made up these ordinary readers was probably no more ordinary than Tillyard 's projected Elizabethans were , yet his assumption was of a body of readers outside higher education institutions . |
| 30 | Doctors said his stomach was like a teabag . ’ |