Example sentences of "that was his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First day back from the winter holiday , the first morning that he had worn again his white shirt and knotted his tie and refound the quiet striped suit that was his favourite . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , ’ he said and they both left Steed parked there and made their way to the twisted and bent railing that was his door to the family . |
| 3 | Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom . |
| 4 | His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition . |
| 5 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 6 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 7 | ‘ You Make Me Feel ( Mighty Real ) ’ sang Sylvester with that glorious lightness of spirit that was his trademark , encapsulating our lack , our need , our desire . |
| 8 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 9 | He climbed the ladder and studied his face for half an hour in the silver disc that was his halo . |
| 10 | He wanted to wood sculpture that was his idea in |
| 11 | And he sold them that was his cost was three pounds . |
| 12 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
| 13 | And David told Pattie that he that was his son that rung up . |
| 14 | Naggaroth 's dark master had perfected his evil arts over long millennia and for the first time Teclis met a foe that was his match . |
| 15 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 16 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 17 | If Lowell had another woman that was his business and Zoe 's . |
| 18 | He that in Obedience to this Command of God , subdued , tilled and sowed any part of it , thereby annexed to it something that was his Property , which another had not Title to , nor could without injury take from him . |
| 19 | Irina sat behind him , a disembodied voice asking questions through the drugged haze that was his mind . |
| 20 | It would have been better , would it not , if you had spoken earlier , and spared him the journey that was his death ? ’ |
| 21 | Colt knew the sound , he knew the ways of the regime that was his host . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |