Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It 's all part of his preparation for his new movie , A Bronx Tale . |
| 5 | So it 's all part of his warderishness . |
| 6 | It 's all part of his job , ’ she said . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His touch remains as sure as ever and , obscure though his subject may be , it is another masterpiece from his pen . |
| 10 | For Moran it is another chapter in his long career as he equals David O'Leary 's record of 23 World Cup appearances . |
| 11 | It was all part of his punishment , to give him food he liked when it could n't be appreciated . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was all part of his campaign to enable him to take part in Operation Raleigh in February this year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was this manner of his , more than anything else , that seemed to have a therapeutic benefit . |
| 20 | It was another milestone in his amazing recovery since an horrific motorway smash two months ago . |