Example sentences of "of his [noun] [conj] [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shrugs off the jacket of his suit and drapes it over the back of a chair . |
| 2 | He leans forward and picks up one of his legs and pulls it right out from his trousers . |
| 3 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 4 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 5 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |