Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she imagining it , or were his eyes gazing back at Nicole 's like a lingering caress ? |
| 2 | Or was his delay caused by the fact that he was merely fond of her , and did not actually love her ? |
| 3 | Or was his name dead ? |
| 4 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |
| 5 | One had its ribs kicked in through its lungs … leastways that wuz his opinion of how it prob'ly happened . |
| 6 | Nor were his warnings a fluke ; his ability to provide such foresight was based upon his theory of equilibrium . |
| 7 | Nor were his first words to her encouraging . |
| 8 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 9 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 10 | Those are pearls that were his eyes : |
| 11 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 12 | As a married man , however , he wishes to point out that were his spouse to turn into Miss Minogue , he might feel equally impelled to ‘ kick her out ’ . |
| 13 | It was Pitt-Rivers ' methods of excavation , though , that were his most important contribution to archaeology . |
| 14 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 15 | Nor was his father , William Poole , a landowner and practical farmer renowned for his ‘ astonishing sagacity in predicting the course of the weather ’ . |
| 16 | But nor was his marriage right . |
| 17 | Nor was his heir , Henry III , any more successful , although he took part in an enterprise in western France in 1230 . |
| 18 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 19 | Nor was his wife ‘ sensible ’ like Harriett , who found Kitty ‘ silly ’ . |
| 20 | Nor was his popularity limited to France . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then calmly , in a voice that was his own , he said that the god had left him . |
| 26 | It was the candid charm that was his greatest public asset . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 30 | Colt knew the sound , he knew the ways of the regime that was his host . |