Example sentences of "that it was his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 2 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 3 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |
| 4 | It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy . |
| 5 | He was seized with a certainty that it was his own son . |
| 6 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 7 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 8 | Of that I have no doubt , but I am equally certain that it was his own hands which fastened his belt around his neck and fumbled for the window bar . |