Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 2 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 3 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |
| 4 | The Prodigal Son becomes the pattern for us all ; he became so hungry that he was prepared to swallow his own pride . |
| 5 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 6 | John Coffin was no exception ; a clever and practical man , he was unable to manage his own electric oven . |
| 7 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 8 | The bleeding into his pharynx was so massive that he was unable to maintain his own airway while lying supine . |
| 9 | For example , non-Christian religions were developed in more detail , and in many places a user was able to treat his own country or religion as the preferred category . |
| 10 | Owen , because he could pay more , was able to draw his own men almost exclusively from the city . |
| 11 | At a distance from France , Nan was able to place his own indoctrination and oppression in perspective . |
| 12 | As premier earl , Harold was able to secure his own election to the throne , but was forced to defend it almost immediately against Scandinavian and Norman claimants . |
| 13 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 14 | I once asked Kalchu how he was able to tell his cows one from the other , and how he was able to distinguish his own from other people 's . |
| 15 | He was happy telling his own stories or listening to Orton 's . |
| 16 | The link with parliamentary politics was effective in both directions , however , and a collector who openly opposed the political interest of the politician in control of the parliamentary seat was unlikely to retain his own position beyond the next meeting of the commission of supply , unless of course the political interest in power was about to be destroyed . |
| 17 | Partly he was desperate to earn his own living and vindicate his decision to be an artist , and , in spite of everything , to place in front of his father and mother the hard-won gift of his success . |
| 18 | Harry stared , and was slow to see his own face , and yet he could not but believe . |
| 19 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 20 | Like all former managers and station masters , he was keen to justify his own stewardship . |
| 21 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 22 | Joseph was overjoyed to have his own cassowary . |
| 23 | Thus , while the French economy ( as well as that of West Germany ) was clearly pulling ahead of the British , de Gaulle was eager to go his own way and even defy the United States ( not least in economic matters ) wherever it seemed appropriate . |
| 24 | Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " . |