Example sentences of "was his for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 2 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 3 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |
| 4 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 5 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |