Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disrupting his own writing . |
| 2 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 3 | It looked like Uncle Mosse ; it was wearing his old uniform . |
| 4 | It was to bore his own side as well as his opponents . |
| 5 | He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health . |
| 6 | He might be lord of all he surveyed , but it seemed he did n't in the least mind getting his own hands dirty , even if it was to assist his arch enemy . |
| 7 | Then it was thought his Irish-sounding name suggested Catholicism , and other bigots decided to take action . |