Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whatever clothes Luke Hunter wore , they were most definitely his own . |
| 2 | Its features , high , intellectual forehead , straight nose , long upper lip and fine-cut mouth , were so absolutely his own that he wondered others did n't remark on it . |
| 3 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
| 4 | Leavis 's judgements were very much his own , laboriously arrived at , and presented with subtlety and rigour . |
| 5 | Anthony Phillips may have quit Genesis twenty-two years ago , but he has never stopped exploring the musical landscape that was once uniquely their own . |
| 6 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 7 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 8 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |
| 9 | Her glance played over a room which was no longer her own . |
| 10 | From drifting happily from mountain to mountain with equally impecunious friends , Joe was suddenly elevated to a position where his life was no longer his own . |
| 11 | But I have the impression that Ursula was very much her own heroine . |
| 12 | This brought to an end the short life of the Basque Republic of Euskadi , which under its president , Aguirre , had been waging what was very much its own war . |
| 13 | Arthur Rank was no longer applying pressure on him to make bigger , more ambitious pictures , and Balcon was very much his own man . |
| 14 | Equally striking was Alexander I 's experiment with ‘ military colonies ’ , which was very much his own pet scheme . |
| 15 | Adam Burns was very much his own man , following no dictates but his own . |
| 16 | Angus was very much his own man and was a very keen outdoors enthusiast . |