Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |
| 2 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
| 5 | Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross . |
| 6 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 7 | The knight must be ready to fight hard when his prince required it of him ; he must never desert ; nor must he refuse to fight for the common good ; and , above all , he must fight fearlessly . |
| 8 | Every pilot in his squadron knew it by heart . |
| 9 | Some places welcomed Julian 's pagan revival ; others , including some large and important cities , were much less enthusiastic about his attempt to reimpose it after a generation of rule by Christian emperors . |
| 10 | Before him lies a dark , trackless , formless , chaotic field , which he probes with the antennae of his techniques and ideas , seeking by his action to transform it into pure presence . |
| 11 | God , when he gave the World in common to all Mankind , commanded Man also to labour , and the penury of his Condition required it of him . |
| 12 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 14 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 15 | Alternatively , he might spread the front of the shirt across his body to stop it from slipping down his arm . |
| 16 | As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France . |
| 17 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 18 | His team won it for sure in the second half , with tries from full-back , Martin Roberts and flanker , Pete Glanville . |
| 19 | Once champion , he relinquished his name believing it to be a relic of slavery and announced his allegiance to the Nation of Islam , the segregationist sect popularly known as the ‘ Black Muslims ’ ( see Lincoln , 1961 ; Essien-Udom , 1962 ) . |
| 20 | A mix of ‘ live ’ performances , the ubiquitous rent-a-crowd dancers and this week Norman Cook explains how police recently raided his bar-b-q believing it to be an illegal rave . |
| 21 | A mix of ‘ live ’ performances , the ubiquitous rent-a-crowd dancers and this week Norman Cook explains how police recently raided his bar-b-q believing it to be an illegal rave . |
| 22 | He also felt that the evidence of abuse was unconvincing but given the involvement of other agencies in this area it was beyond his remit to challenge it in compiling his advice for the Statement . |
| 23 | He did n't know where his father got it from , but there was plenty of it . |
| 24 | His father saw it as an act of treachery , his mother silently agreed with everyone as she saw their separate points of view . |
| 25 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 26 | ‘ His aunt cooks it with honey and garlic , and it 's not so bad . ’ |
| 27 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 28 | But he remained so convinced of a static universe that he added an element to his theory to reconcile it with Newton 's theory and balance gravity . |
| 29 | If a plaintiff abandons the excess of his claim to bring it within the jurisdiction of the county court , the abandonment must be stated at the end of the particulars ( Ord 6 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 30 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |