Example sentences of "it was a [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideologically , it was a return to his roots — to his obsession with the innate hostility of what he called " les féodalités " ( political parties , trade unions , special interest groups ) towards the state . |
| 2 | The man was a raving sadist , she thought , and then realised it was a requirement of his job . |
| 3 | It was a ghostly hand holding a lighted candle , and the luckless man who beheld it knew that it was a portent of his death . |
| 4 | It was a present from his mum … hours later Les , 17 , and his 3 mates were dead |
| 5 | Well , it was a celebration of his life , was n't it ? |
| 6 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 7 | It was a part of his creed never to give way to these emotions . |
| 8 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 9 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 10 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 11 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 12 | It was a measure of his upset that Karel did n't even notice he was repeating himself . |
| 13 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 14 | It was a fragment of his own mind , designed to journey to the edgewoods , to find his rescuer . |
| 15 | EG Vinnie throwing a scotch egg at him and Bobby Davison getting pissed and falling asleep in the restaureant only to wake up with flu and miss loads of games ( the papers said it was a recurrance of his knee injury ) ! |
| 16 | But had he not fallen in with it too readily and too rapidly simply because it was a testimony to his secure tenure , a declaration before the world that he was a king indeed , and his progeny fit mates for the royalty of Europe ? |
| 17 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 18 | It was a mailshot for his own agency , which was then starting up , to potential clients . |
| 19 | He did n't particularly like brandy , but it was a put of his image . |
| 20 | It was a phrase of his she 'd picked up . |
| 21 | The editorial policy that he pursued in Monde was ultimately no doubt as much a product of his natural inclination for popular front co-operative politics , as it was a consequence of his scepticism regarding the possibilities for the development of proletarian literature in interwar capitalist France dominated by a hegemonic bourgeois cultural tradition . |
| 22 | It was a condition of his bail that he should not approach Bridget Coffey , the complainant . |
| 23 | By his waiver he had lost his right to regard the contract as repudiated on March 20 , but in the circumstances it was a condition of his waiver that delivery should take place as soon as possible . |
| 24 | For the reasons I have given , I am of the opinion that he was also correct to hold that it was a matter within his discretion to decide whether or not to require the local authority to give an undertaking in damages . |
| 25 | It was a period of his life hat he would never talk about . |
| 26 | It was a milestone in his life . |
| 27 | It was a demand for his own deselection . |
| 28 | It was a dinner held at his own expense in a private room at Magdalen , and it was a symptom of his great generosity . |