Example sentences of "him [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite his terror of darkness and subterranean places , he wanted the ground to open at his feet and swallow him into its blackest hole . |
| 32 | On one occasion , to our eternal delight , he addressed a cavorting puppy , entangling itself and him in its lead , ‘ Oh , be human , dog , do ! ’ |
| 33 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 34 | This trio was written early in 1845 , just over two years before his death at the age of 38 ; and it is characteristic of him in its formal subtlety within apparently classical outlines , and in its skilful reconciliation of baroque with romantic . |
| 35 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 36 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 37 | In the Hexham vacancy of 1866 the diocesan chapter included him in its terna , and in the same year Henry Manning , archbishop of Westminster [ q.v. ] , suggested him to Rome as coadjutor archbishop of Sydney , Australia . |
| 38 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 39 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 40 | Afterwards Neil Cochrane thought that he should have struck Havvie down then , but shock at learning who McAllister really was had him in its grip , and he let the shameful accusation go by . |
| 41 | Even if he has refused to be a market counterparty in relation to some investments , he can still be a market counterparty in relation to other qualifying investments ; and ( 3 ) The firm has warned him in its notice that he will not have the benefit of protections afforded to customers . |
| 42 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 43 | Staring at him from its face was Rock Hardy , the hero of his favourite comic-strip . |
| 44 | Only she could protect him from its hungry clutches . |
| 45 | In reading this last poem we may glimpse a solution to the problem of Wordsworth 's decline — the Imagination had become a power so terrible that he could not risk indulging it , and yet it would not release him from its grip . |
| 46 | He also claimed a declaration that the refusal of the directors of Newcastle United to release him from its retention list or alternatively to put him on its transfer list was unreasonable . |
| 47 | Cleo noticed he had left the circle incomplete ; she knew he expected her to join him within its protection before he sealed it . |
| 48 | The Ring seems to find no answer in him to its call . |
| 49 | Sometimes the Church has tried to exercise proprietary rights over the Holy Spirit , confining him to its basis of faith , its ministerial orders , its sacraments . |
| 50 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 51 | He also claimed a declaration that the refusal of the directors of Newcastle United to release him from its retention list or alternatively to put him on its transfer list was unreasonable . |
| 52 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 53 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 54 | And , fundamentally , Braque 's painting is much more thoughtful and reasoned ; while the Demoiselles must have excited him by its immediacy and directness , it also posed for Braque various pictorial problems . |