Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | • The patient 's perception of his environment and his response to it is likely to be grossly reduced , since he might be unconscious or paralysed , for example . |
| 2 | Classics was also to be Nietzsche 's chosen profession and his rise in it was rapid . |
| 3 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 4 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 5 | The point could be put differently by suggesting that in his notions of a " community of Christians " and " parochial units " he displayed little understanding of the nature of English life — his grasp of it was theoretical rather than actual ; just as he adopted almost too perfectly the dress and manners of an Englishman , so he offered an idealized and therefore unconvincing account of English society . |
| 6 | His attitude towards it was dismissive and arrogant almost as though MI5 had decided the result before the enquiry had begun . |
| 7 | It felt so good tucked there , so snug and firm under his armpit like it was a part of him . |
| 8 | One man who may have his eye on it is David Mellor , Secretary for National Heritage . |
| 9 | A stranger , if he is prudent , will secure his share for it is not certain that he will be able to eat any thing else . ’ ) |
| 10 | THE RESULT of the Spanish Grand Prix will not be nullified , even if an appeal by Nigel Mansell on his exclusion from it is successful , the president of FISA , the sport 's ruling body , said yesterday . |
| 11 | Hendry then experienced fear at first hand one night when he took his dog for it 's nightly walk on the beach near his apartment in South Queensferry . |
| 12 | Back in February 1967 John Michell , the ley-lines and saucers correspondent of It , wrote to the paper , explaining his concern with It 's ‘ interest in political forms of thought and protest … |
| 13 | All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough . |
| 14 | Typical of these is the Invective against France which survives in several manuscripts : it depicts the French as effeminate , combining the characteristics of the lynx , viper and wolf ; King Philip 's fraudulent claims to the French throne and his unworthiness for it are elaborately exposed with biblical and legal references ; by contrast Edward 's victories , secured by his virtuousness , serve only to prove that God was on his side . |
| 15 | His unfamiliarity with it was not , however , the result of indifference . |
| 16 | David Thatcher who minutes the CA debt working group came to the conference and his account of it is the main article in this newsletter . |
| 17 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 18 | He glowers at the butt of his cigar like it 's a broken fingernail . |
| 19 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 20 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 21 | He just stares at me , sucking on his cheroot like it was marijuana . |