Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 2 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 3 | However , as the pope himself had been so committed to it before his election , such an outcome was unthinkable . |
| 4 | He referred to it in his mind as a temporary dramaturgical folly . |
| 5 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 6 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 7 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 8 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 9 | The door was shut and he banged on it with his knuckles two or three times before he heard a movement inside and the door opened . |
| 10 | Nor did he refer to it in his address to new SS recruits at midnight on 9 November , and not a word relating to the pogrom was contained in his confidential speech — not meant for public consumption — to leaders of the German press on the evening of 10 November , less than twenty-four hours after the burning of the synagogues and the destruction of Jewish property throughout the length and breadth of Germany . |
| 11 | Connon poked at it with his forefinger . |
| 12 | Get angry about this bully , this cheap punk , this yob who reckons that you are a soft option ; this hooligan who scouts the streets for weaker victims , who wants to beat you senseless so that he can brag about it to his beer-swilling pals in the local pub . |
| 13 | One of his body squires heard him whispering about it to his Gascon favourite . ’ |
| 14 | And he paid for it with his life ( 31:8 ) . |
| 15 | She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life . |
| 16 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 17 | He believed that his survey would be of use , but privately thought of it as his escape . |
| 18 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 19 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 20 | I mean , look at it from his point of view . |
| 21 | His collarbone ached , and he dug at it with his good arm , massaging the stiffness with his fingers . |
| 22 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 23 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 24 | But if Gloucester chose to act against Hastings , rather than being stampeded into it by his discovery of a conspiracy , why did he choose to show his hand before his troops reached London and before he had control of the other possible claimants to the throne ? |
| 25 | I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he |
| 26 | He produced the receipt , Donleavy carefully itemized the equipment on a small yellow legal pad and Coleman signed for it with his code name , Benjamin B. |
| 27 | Cornelius stepped sharply up and rapped upon it with his knuckle . |
| 28 | The Chinese rug in the centre of the hall showed no blemish — until he walked on it with his muddy brogues . |
| 29 | A figure popped out of a doorway to Alexei 's left , and he cut at it with his sword and ran on . |
| 30 | Cursing , he thrust at it with his elbow and the glass shattered in fragments around him . |