Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 2 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 3 | The feel of it plugging his nostrils added to his panic . |
| 4 | Her aim , intended to catch him full in the face with the boiling liquid , was inhibited by the way he was holding her , but some of it splashed his cheek . |
| 5 | Bones stopped at the gate only because Uncle Bean stood in front of it waving his arms . |
| 6 | Once , the wind blew her long , pale hair forwards over his shoulder and strands of it caught his face and stroked it , and he could smell the fragrance of her drifting through his body . |
| 7 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 8 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 9 | Oh Andrew 's always very slow but at the end of it bending his head . |
| 10 | The thin material parted under his fingers and he pushed his hand beneath it to find his palm brushing her naked breast . |
| 11 | It is worth looking at , for from it sprang his fund of knowledge along with the all-important Jewish scriptures and his family 's experiences with them in eastern Europe . |
| 12 | Do the views expressed in it represent his views and the views of the whole of his party , or the views of only one part of his Front-Bench team ? |
| 13 | ‘ He regarded the Cabinet ’ , wrote Anthony Seldon , ‘ as extremely important , even sacrosanct , and would only rarely ride roughshod over it to get his way . ’ |
| 14 | In a world noisy with the organs of mass communication and riddled with propaganda , modern man is hard put to it to preserve his status as an individual . |
| 15 | Cullam fidgeted , he moved to the crock-filled sink , leaning on it compressing his lips . |
| 16 | Forming a scrum , they attacked Stair 's party , and one young fellow who had brought along a hunting horn blew blasts on it to encourage his fellows . |
| 17 | Just thinking about it made his mouth water . |
| 18 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |