Example sentences of "that it was his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 2 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 3 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 4 | Somehow him telling that lie that turned out to be nearly true made him feel that it was his fault . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But she quotes approvingly our television critic , Richard Last , a month or so back : ‘ Melvyn Bragg 's controversial A Time to Dance ( BBC1 ) ended on a believably tender note , suggesting that it was his producer or director , rather than the author , who miscalculated the grossness of earlier episodes . ’ |
| 7 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In context it seems more likely that it was his impatient response to Lipchitz 's well-intentioned nannying . |
| 10 | Harris finished and the packed courtroom sat in pregnant silence waiting for Philip Drew to take the stand , remembering that it was his prerogative whether he did so or not . |
| 11 | Though he never disguised his leadership ambitions , he continued to deny that it was his intention to challenge the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |
| 13 | Back in 1980 Geoff Yeadon had told Geoff Crossley that it was his ambition to see King Pot and the East Kingsdale Master Cave , linked to West Kingsdale and Keld Head . |
| 14 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 15 | Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 17 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
| 18 | He stated that it was his intention to start a Salisbury delivery but great-grandmother said that whilst she would n't change , her daughter who was about to marry might be interested . |
| 19 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 20 | She was working with a variety group and we laughed together when Sir Henry , who had still a lot of influence , let it be known that it was his wish that Miss Anne Zeigler married Mr Webster Booth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By then James had , somewhat unwillingly , been persuaded by Mar and a few of his leading supporters that it was his duty to preserve the dynasty by making his escape . |
| 23 | He looked after the little girl throughout the journey , everyone , including the Gestapo guards , assuming that it was his sister nestling in his lap . |
| 24 | When she 'd been selected , and automatically compelled to leave the Navy , taking an appointment at a civilian hospital , he 'd told himself that it was his duty to visit her to see that she was settled in … not lonely . |
| 25 | It is a measure of Mr Smith 's extraordinarily well-starred political horoscope that it was his quiet , determined recovery from his illness — rather than illness itself — that leaves the more lasting impression in one 's mind . |
| 26 | He told them that he was answerable to Parliament alone when he made decisions and that it was his duty to take into account the wider interests of the public . |
| 27 | He was seized with a certainty that it was his own son . |
| 28 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 29 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 30 | 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 . |