Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] his [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |
| 2 | Rufus was sitting on the blue-tiled rim of it with his feet dangling in the water . |
| 3 | and Potts J. ) [ 1992 ] R.T.R. 129 upholding the decision of a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate sitting at Bow Street on 22 January 1991 dismissing an information against the defendant , Frank Warren , that on 11 May 1990 at Jermyn Street , London , S.W.1 , he did drive a motor vehicle on a road after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his blood exceeded the prescribed limit , contrary to section 5(1) ( a ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 4 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 5 | If Anthony was somebody else 's he could at least have the decency to shut up about it like his mother had . |