Example sentences of "him [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 2 | It lay with him between its talons . |
| 3 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 4 | The Sunderland Union had elected him as its delegate to the local trades council . |
| 5 | Claudia fought hard against her traitorous body that already acknowledged him as its master , trying to hold herself away from him . |
| 6 | Thereafter Ramos founded a new political group , the People Power Party ( PPP ) , which adopted him as its presidential nominee on Jan. 2 . |
| 7 | Despite poor opinion poll showings and his reputation as an old-style patronage politician , the LDP formally selected him as its candidate at a convention in late January . |
| 8 | They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip . |
| 9 | But this overlooks two points : first , that the transsexual is living proof that , in actuality , the psyche may operate in defiance of biological truths regardless of what the law says it should do ; second , that the psyche is not necessarily formed by choice , but may instead be determined for the individual by forces operating on him during its development . |
| 10 | At that moment , a warning pressure reminded him of its menacing presence . |
| 11 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 12 | For example , for Harpton Court , Radnor , built around 1805 , Mr Colvin lists the outbuildings under Nash , whereas Mr Mansbridge gives the new south front to him despite its air of a Late Classical job of the 1840s . |
| 13 | Like coffee , legend surrounds the beginning of tea drinking and it is also reputed to have kept awake an ancient priest throughout a long vigil , stimulating him with its caffeine . |
| 14 | The trunks in the clearing had formed an ever-tightening ring which threatened to overpower him ; to crush him with its living might . |
| 15 | The dark rock comforted him with its hardness . |
| 16 | But the swimming both pleased and excited him with its demands . |
| 17 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 18 | The painted figure of a Pre-Raphaelite angel carrying a single lily , its yellow hair crimped under the wide halo , looked back at him with its bland , uncurious gaze . |
| 19 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 20 | Hofmeyr was certain that the mother had returned to look for her calf and associated him with its disappearance . |
| 21 | The Keeper of Secrets cut at him with its great claw . |
| 22 | He was warden of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales , chairman of the BBC 's Welsh consultative council , president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion ( the society honoured him with its medal ) , president of the court and a fellow of the National Eisteddfod of Wales , president of the National Library of Wales , and an honorary fellow of Jesus College , Oxford . |
| 23 | The familiar waste-land of the empty auditorium engulfed him with its seedy , oppressive presence . |
| 24 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 25 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 26 | A figure approached him with its arms wrapped around its chest . |
| 27 | But I want to tell you ’ — the echo of the chock of a bat against a ball reached him with its moment 's delay , and a blackbird ran its first trill through the evening . |
| 28 | The rain bounced and splattered and visibly stung him with its force . |
| 29 | The moon came out , full and white , flooding him with its hard brightness . |
| 30 | It was further weighed down when German literature seized on the ‘ demonic ’ in Mozart and press-ganged him into its own camp , and by a tendency to put a romantic sheen on performances , which replaced uniformity by even worse distortion . |