Example sentences of "his [noun pl] were [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | X-rays showed that his teeth were partly the source of the trouble , and in July those at the back were removed in stages and dental plates inserted in their place . |
| 2 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 3 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 4 | Ron and his peers were not the only ones to be obliged to move by the War . |
| 5 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 6 | Two months later Gorbachev was saying his comments were not the Tablets of Moses . |
| 7 | His approach to everything was meticulous , and his decisions were usually the right ones . |
| 8 | For another it implies their agreement with Korah that he and his followers were indeed the true people of God . |