Example sentences of "was [verb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he was to acquire his pleasure dome , his fabled mansion , his circular bed , his non-stop room service of food , drink , movies , closed circuit television and girls from the Bunnies ' dormitory , the Xanadu of the Middle West over which he presided as Chicago 's Kubla Khan . |
| 2 | Consecrated in Winchester by the legate Henry of Blois [ q.v. ] on 20 June , Bishop William excused himself from the consecration of Fitzherbert in late September because of difficulties in his bishopric , where Cumin was maintaining his position by force and guile . |
| 3 | It was seeing his glasses that tore me apart . |
| 4 | It was seeing his picture of ‘ Mountain Silence ’ made me long to see the darksome mountain-girt lake in its weird lonesomeness with an intense longing . |
| 5 | While a court was being urged to hold Mr Tindell , 28 , in custody in May , detective Mr Weatherill was seeing his ex-wife . |
| 6 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 7 | Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios . |
| 8 | Patiently , steadily , he was easing his way back into her life , seeing her regularly , but not too regularly , and taking pains to get to know Dickie and myself , which was sensible since we were both important to Margaret . |
| 9 | The Italian was demanding his money back . |
| 10 | The claim that with his coming God was inaugurating his rule on earth laid him open to a charge of blasphemy , which was without difficulty transformed into a plea to the prefect Pontius Pilate that Jesus was instigating sedition . |
| 11 | His first intention was to continue his philosophy studies in London University , combined with reading for the Bar : but this was soon abandoned because of his ever-growing fascination with pan-African politics . |
| 12 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 13 | The shock news came as Roker manager Malcolm Crosby was completing his preparations for tonight 's visit of Second Dvision leaders Ipswich Town the first of four crucial games in seven days . |
| 14 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 15 | While Balcon was encouraging his writers to come up with original stories , and steadily reducing the company 's reliance on the theatre , BIP remained largely stagebound . |
| 16 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 17 | But what he 'd got to do was to plan his time , and work out his priorities , by distinguishing between those tasks that are urgent and those tasks that are important . |
| 18 | Daak was using his chainsword to slice safety straps from their moorings . |
| 19 | Anne was on night shift , Maureen was now driving an ambulance at night , and Pat was using his skill as a builder to rescue people from bombed houses . |
| 20 | Yanto was using his fingers to gather the fine silky material . |
| 21 | Ellwood had ordered lamb cutlets , French beans and button mushrooms ; he was using his fingers to eat . |
| 22 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 23 | It was only because he was using his elbows all the time . |
| 24 | So he yawned , asked if Marcus was using his time in any particular way , looked at his watch . |
| 25 | With horror , I realised he was using his dinner money to feed his addiction . |
| 26 | As Ace manoeuvred down the flank of the shuttle , letting her gauntlets scrape against the weld-seams and pock-marks in order to slow her drift towards the base of the craft , she saw that the Dalek Killer was using his weapon to cut through the metallic material of the surface on which he 'd parked . |
| 27 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 28 | He was using his observation and his understanding rather than learning his role ‘ parrot fashion ’ . ) |
| 29 | The President in office was to suspend his membership of political parties , but the Constitution guaranteed freedom to political parties and public associations [ for clampdown on democratic parties see p. 39010 ] . |
| 30 | In December 1915 , at the very time Falkenhayn was submitting his Memorandum , he was writing to his father about the possibility of a separate peace with England or Russia , ‘ if we do not want our fatherland to keep on fighting until complete exhaustion ’ . |