Example sentences of "it [vb past] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 2 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms mostly to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 3 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 4 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 5 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 6 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 9 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 10 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 11 | Rex felt the cold muzzle of the gun as it entered his left ear . |
| 12 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 13 | And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) . |
| 14 | It affected his own supplies , as well as the carriage of news , and forced him to make secondary plans , among other things , for the sale of his new sugar crop . |
| 15 | and it shook his little lad back |
| 16 | Auden 's influence on the young Britten was enormous : it shaped his whole attitude to the setting of words . |
| 17 | When Gilgamesh later dreamt that Enlil , the father of the gods , had decreed his destiny , it was Enkidu who interpreted for him , explaining that it indicated his certain mortality as well as the gifts of unexampled supremacy over the people and victory in battle . |
| 18 | It spoilt his whole scheme of things . |
| 19 | It developed his imaginative skills ad self-confidence and helped him to settle in at school more easily . ’ |
| 20 | He loved it because of the colours and because it needed his nimble fingers . |
| 21 | Peter followed , thinking how such behaviour would have infuriated his mother , and how it strengthened his own position . |
| 22 | But the death of John not only confirmed Wordsworth 's adherence to these opinions ; it undermined his former self-sufficiency and cast doubts upon the validity of poetry . |
| 23 | It contained his personal computer , which was linked to computers at both the Pentagon and the CIA headquarters in Langley . |
| 24 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 25 | It represented his growing recognition that social change is created not just through the inevitable and impersonal workings of capitalist societies , but by the experience , understanding ( and hence the demands ) gained by people in their everyday lives in the limited spatial context of their localities . |
| 26 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 27 | Geoffrey watched the red flush creep up James Grierson 's neck and continue until it reached his receding hairline . |
| 28 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
| 29 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 30 | Then , it appeared his official England career was over , but today he will become — after Mike Gatting and Paul Jarvis — the third former rebel to return , winning his 61st cap . |