Example sentences of "[coord] it was his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 . |
| 2 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 3 | On these occasions the warden was informed of the number and kind of game they were to take , and it was his duty to keep a check on the number of deer taken , and to inform the king . |
| 4 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |
| 5 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 6 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 7 | For all that , it was a key letter and sounded a new note , and it was his first written in French , as if to underline his sense of liberation from the worst aspects of things Dutch — their narrow-mindedness , their lack of joy . |
| 8 | Number eight Dave Cook provided excellent support and it was his pass to Steve Glen that allowed the scrum-half to scamper over for the score . |
| 9 | Bart-Williams ' appearance as a 64th minute substitute transformed the game — and it was his corner that led to Wednesday 's equaliser . |
| 10 | Lee has worked with Universal before , teaming up with them for Do The Right Thing , Mo ’ Better Blues and Jungle Fever , and it was his experience with the company that has encouraged him to sign his life over to The Man . |
| 11 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 12 | ( Incidentally , the unreliability of the radio had been reported to the Civil Governor some time before , and it was his responsibility to replace it ) . |
| 13 | He was forced to use the Sword Masters of Hoeth and other agents to seek out the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure and it was his unpleasant task to sign many death warrants . |
| 14 | It was he who would inform the medical officer if the prompt examination of an inmate on admission was necessary , and it was his duty to ‘ take care that all sick and insane inmates and the infants are duly visited by the medical officer ’ . |
| 15 | The death of the Black Prince and the illness of the king meant that Gaunt was in effect ruler of England in Edward 's last year , and it was his intention to reverse the acts of the Good Parliament and punish those who had instigated them . |
| 16 | And it was his skill as a communicator , mainly through television , that created the impression of towering popular support for his programme . |
| 17 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 18 | But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals . |
| 19 | And it was his successor , William de Turbe ( 1146–74 ) who , two generations later , had to extend the limits of the successful town over the marshland to the north , where he established another market place and built the church of St Nicholas beside it . |
| 20 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 21 | And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’ |
| 22 | One of the company commanders there had died of pneumonia , and it was his place Montague had to take . |
| 23 | I was his friend and companion , and it was his will that you should ascend the Dragon Throne . ’ |
| 24 | He owned the journal for another twenty years and it was his main periodical warhorse , supported by several others he established : Gardening ( Illustrated ) ( 1879–1919 ) , Farm and Home ( 1882–1920 ) , Cottage Gardening ( 1892–8 ) , and Flora and Sylva ( 1903–5 ) . |
| 25 | Whereas Guedron had considerable sense of drama , Boësset had more talent for lyricism and the love-song , and it was his path rather than that of his father-in-law which was followed by the younger composers , of whom Francois Richard the elder ( d. 1650 ) and Étienne Moulinié ( c. 1600–after 1669 ) were the most gifted . |
| 26 | Euripides was its last great figure , and it was his innovating genius that destroyed it — ( myth , music and all ) . |
| 27 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |
| 28 | And it was his first parish . |
| 29 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |
| 30 | And it was his men killed Dixie . ’ |