Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 2 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 3 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 4 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 5 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 6 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 7 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 8 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 9 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 10 | He opened its eyes , and standing astride the small body , he clasped it between his rough hands and pulled it up . |
| 11 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 12 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 13 | Often it is itself only an inherited prejudice , just as G. K. Chesterton caricatured it in his little poem ‘ The New Free Thinker ’ . |
| 14 | Jolitz reportedly mortgaged his house to start the initial 386BSD project and subsequently finished it in his own time . |
| 15 | Middlemass breathed it as his native air . |
| 16 | On the Thursday ( 10 December ) Baldwin presented the King 's message of renunciation to the House of Commons , and followed it by his own account and justification of events . |
| 17 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 18 | Even though he only heard it through his right ear . |
| 19 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 20 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 21 | Deeply rooted in peasant culture was the belief that the land should belong to whoever worked it with his own hands . |
| 22 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 23 | The colonel ran out into the road , blocked the animal 's path and guided it into his own yard , where his children calmed it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Preserving the union ’ has become the president 's first priority : a ‘ sacred cause ’ , he called it in his new year 's message . |
| 25 | It was the aspect of Harlequin as servant that intrigued Massine , who employed it in his own portrayal of the factotums , bar-tenders and servants in several works . |
| 26 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 27 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 28 | He saw it as his main chance to regain some respect . |
| 29 | An even greater improvement came in 1813 with 53 Geo III cap 102 which created a scheme involving a new ‘ Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors ’ which , as Sir William Blackstone saw it in his famous Commentaries , ‘ first provided permanently for the relief of insolvent debtors ’ . |
| 30 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |