Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opens his mouth and it almost spills out , the bitter refusal : no . |
| 2 | ‘ He talked about his work and it immediately struck me that , as a professional doctor , he had an almost unhealthy interest in the more sordid side of sex , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Once more , the critics placed his work where it honestly belonged , in the basement of B-movies , as were his next two , Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury , both directed by Monte Hellman . |
| 4 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 5 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 6 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 7 | Mr Malik lowered his nose until it almost touched the bails . |
| 8 | Today his walk did not hold his attention as it usually did . |
| 9 | The publicity may not exactly have gone to his head but it certainly set fire to his ambition . |
| 10 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |
| 11 | As Derek came close to him , Jack could smell fry-up on his breath and it suddenly made him feel sick again . |
| 12 | He waded in with his sword swinging , and felt the jar down his arm as it almost decapitated an animal . |