Example sentences of "it had [be] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 2 | It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned . |
| 3 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
| 4 | Twenty years earlier , it had been his patriotic rhetoric which had briefly rallied the nation around him and done so much to consolidate his grip on absolute power . |
| 5 | Yet it had been his own vision , his own analysis , his own solution . |
| 6 | I wondered whether it had been his bright idea that sent them there . |
| 7 | At first it had been his physical beauty , then the cast of his mind . |