Example sentences of "it [adj] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Carlisle , the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats — who gained half as much again in terms of votes as PC — vetoed the deal , making it clear his position was on the line . |
| 2 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 3 | But he erm he was once burned very severely with one of them blowing out , and he 's b he suffered from it all his life after that . |
| 4 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 5 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 6 | Had wanted it all his life . |
| 7 | It 's probably got in it all his train numbers . |
| 8 | Through it all his mother quietly and continually supported him and as the years passed we all began to realise that there were unforeseen , unimagined battles inexorably growing everywhere . |