Example sentences of "it in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 2 | ‘ Preserving the union ’ has become the president 's first priority : a ‘ sacred cause ’ , he called it in his new year 's message . |
| 3 | And then , as Morrison Halcrow describes it in his new biography of Lord Joseph , Sir Keith ( as he then was ) made that celebrated 1974 speech which created such a storm . |
| 4 | GUIL takes a third coin , spins , it , catches it in his right hand , turns it over on to his left wrist , lobs it in the air , catches it with his left hand , raises his left leg , throws the coin up and under it , catches it and turns it over on to the top of his head , where it sits . |
| 5 | That was how he put it in his theological terms . |
| 6 | As Ian Michael puts it in his admirable history of English grammar , This function of pronouns , as John Wilkins saw in 1668 , is to ‘ represent things … |
| 7 | Mr Gotobed could hold it in his two hands . |
| 8 | With a great effort , holding his concentration as though he had it in his two hands , he added . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The Director of Information in the colonial administration , Harry Franklin , started the Lusaka station in 1941 and ran it in his spare time . |
| 11 | This is of course the famous ‘ Principle of falsifiability ’ ( or as Imre Lakatos terms it in his immortal words ‘ sophisticated methodological falsificationism ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll go and put it in his letter-box right away . |
| 13 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 14 | Do n't put it in his bloody bed . |
| 15 | He 'll put it in his bloody pocket would n't he ? |
| 16 | To take the former example , a phobia can occur as a result of a severe emotional shock , possibly experienced in childhood , the severity of which has caused the subject to bury his recollection of it in his subconscious mind — it being too traumatic to cope with at a conscious level . |
| 17 | As Henry James so memorably put it in his great essay , ‘ The Art of Fiction ’ , ‘ Experience is never limited , and it is never complete … |
| 18 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 19 | He lit the cheroot and , concealing it in his curved palm , edged towards the stretcher . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And he has done it in his usual champagne style , taking sunshine trips to Arizona , Bermuda and Italy . |
| 22 | Well , he was paying so let him get on with it in his peculiar way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 25 | Under pressure from the others Bert advanced a bony hand and Ernie took it in his massive fist . |
| 26 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 27 | As Principal Buxton , Ernest Gray and others have noted , no account seems to have been taken in government circles in London of the plan for the Hanover school , although Vial , the College 's first professor , does mention it in his Preliminary Discourse . |
| 28 | Corbett pushed the meat through and watched the leading dog seize it in his huge jaws , throwing it up and devouring it , the blood streaming down his black , slavering mouth . |
| 29 | ‘ You could see it in his evil face . ’ |
| 30 | Often it is itself only an inherited prejudice , just as G. K. Chesterton caricatured it in his little poem ‘ The New Free Thinker ’ . |