Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | at a time after the guest has arrived at the hotel , either the property in question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his servant refused to receive it , or the guest or some other guest acting on his behalf wished so to offer the property in question but , through the default of the proprietor or a servant of his , was unable to do so . |
| 2 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 3 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 4 | Worse than that was the knowledge that his mother had found it , presumably in the loft . |
| 5 | When his father had died twelve months ago and his grandmother had made it clear she was n't going to give him a home , he 'd wondered what would happen to him . |
| 6 | She did this and enjoyed it and gradually her father and his friends came to accept it ; indeed , not even , any longer , to notice it . |
| 7 | A lady from Doncaster wrote and offered me a cooker , so Frank and his friends went to pick it up , overhaul it and bring it here . |
| 8 | Between them , Canute and his sons had achieved it in England . |
| 9 | Parsons and his followers had found it ironic that their place of depravity should be built on what had previously been Holy Ground . |
| 10 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 11 | But his intervention has made it much more difficult to forecast the result . |
| 12 | In the original version , now lost , of the chapter in which she reads to Raskolnikov the gospel story of the raising of Lazarus , Dostoevsky intended and wrote a head-on debate about Christianity ; but his publishers refused to print it . |
| 13 | He had a riveting story , even when his lawyers had toned it down it would be a good one and , of course , the Post would not run a line on it . |
| 14 | But , ‘ Yes , of course , ’ she gave in graciously , and was rewarded when his smile did make it . |
| 15 | But suddenly , around one minute into the round , the Champ drops his gloves to his sides , exposing his chin , and when his opponent tries to reach it with punches , he pulls his head back and away , just like the Ali we remember , causing the kid to miss by less than an inch . |
| 16 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 17 | In April 1102 , he confirmed the primacy personally to Anselm as his predecessors had held it . |
| 18 | It had shifted from its deep root and was loosened so that all the ‘ bad ’ — as his mother had called it — was now gathered into the volcanic pimple . |