Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazar , an Arabian stallion , felt that halter classes at shows were rather beneath his dignity . |
| 2 | Branson himself was assured by British officials that the government were wholly on his side , and that there would be ‘ an unholy row ’ if Virgin was not flying on 22 June . |
| 3 | But they did n't go in a book ; they were only for his friends to read . |
| 4 | Matt chuckled as he regarded Silas with an amused glint in eyes that were so like his nephew 's . |
| 5 | His arms were down at his sides . |
| 6 | They were not of his world . |
| 7 | Carter had not meant to kill his wife , and the intention was only to strike her ; the terrible and unfortunate consequences were not of his design . |
| 8 | Noel was unashamedly ‘ political ’ , but he felt that being ‘ non-political ’ only too often meant in practice tacitly supporting the dominion of Mammon , and ignoring the needs of the poor and the oppressed all over the world , attitudes which were not in his reading of the Christian faith . |
| 9 | Jaq knew not to enquire too deeply into the secrets of the Officio Assassinorum when such particulars were not within his brief . |
| 10 | Edward 's protection of his servants from excommunication — tenants-in-chief had been exempted since the twelfth century — applied not only to those servants who were permanently in his employment , but even to those on ad hoc commissions . |
| 11 | He froze , his hands up as though the jacket were still between his fingers . |
| 12 | How would you respond if you knew that after his previous failures to find answers he had cried out louder and more often , and that the scars of the razor blades were still on his wrists to show it ? |
| 13 | Her legs were still on his shoulders as she pulled his head down to lightly kiss his lips . |
| 14 | " Dear Virginia , " he said quietly , as if she were still by his side . |
| 15 | It is a characteristic of Nicholson that he displays and hopes for loyalty from a friendship and thus most of those he met and formed relationships with in the late Fifties and early Sixties were still in his life at the turn of the Nineties . |
| 16 | His face , Stephen noticed , was badly marked with acne as if he were still in his teens , though he was years older than that . |
| 17 | A year later , they were still in his mind when thinking simply of western civilization ; the Papuans came into his memory only to be cursorily dismissed as ‘ weak inaudible voices ’ . |
| 18 | Fred 's trousers were still around his ankles and his movement was hurting her , but by the time she had managed to free one of her legs from beneath him he had finished . |
| 19 | His bicycle-clips were still around his ankles . |
| 20 | Other kids called Tom a gipsy , but only when they were out of his reach ! |
| 21 | He 'd regretted the invitation as soon as the words were out of his mouth . |
| 22 | When she came down , all Sergeant Joe 's files of papers were back in his carpet-bag , and the bag had been restored to the larder . |
| 23 | For one aching , unguarded moment she wished she were back in his arms , nestled against his hard body . |
| 24 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 25 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ My own feeling would be , ’ Theodora said crisply , ‘ that it might help us to find out in more detail what Paul 's movements were immediately before his death . |
| 27 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 28 | They probably were n't on his premises either were they ? |
| 29 | I do n't know what pocket he would have put it in then cos it were n't in his coat pocket . |
| 30 | Her blouse moved further down , and when her two pert pink nipples were fully in his view , she whispered enticingly , ‘ What do you say , do I strip for you ? ’ |