Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 2 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 3 | All the time she was conscious of his eyes on her lips , her teeth , the way her mouth closed over the small cake , touching the tips of his fingers as it did so . |
| 4 | The FCO is waiting , it says , for Ratliff to clarify his plans before it comes to a decision . |
| 5 | He shrugged his shoulders and it fell down his arms . |
| 6 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 7 | yes you are His tail now when it 's down it 's still down between his legs but it 's li it 's limp is n't it ? |
| 8 | I should do really got a clot in one of his legs as it means and went down the other one and got ta take it out , through smoking |
| 9 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 10 | Perhaps it would be wise to pander a little to his whims since it seemed he was prone to these Viking tendencies . |
| 11 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 12 | He looked tired and drawn , and for a moment , she told herself there was a look of pleasure in his eyes before it vanished and he reached out to prevent the door closing . |
| 13 | He could hardly believe his eyes and it was then he knew that he was unable to rely on his sensory feelings ( the kinaesthetic sense ) . |
| 14 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 15 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 16 | Jammy barsteward this one , always seems to land on his feet when it involves getting in free to everton away games . |
| 17 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
| 18 | He made a model to test his ideas and it lived up to his expectations . |
| 19 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 20 | Much later , Khrushchev stated in his Memoirs that it was entirely the idea of the North Korean Leader , Kim Il Sung . |
| 21 | Sooty was famous for his jokes and it was said he could make a cat laugh just by looking at it . |
| 22 | ‘ More Than One Photography ’ ( on at the museum until 9 August ) is the result of his efforts and it consists of about sixty works by artists of all disciplines ( including ‘ pure ’ photographers who present their work non-traditionally ) . |
| 23 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 24 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 25 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 26 | Lewis was the presiding genius ; the meeting took place in his rooms and it was he who chose the moment to ask if anyone present had any work in progress which they wanted to read aloud . |
| 27 | The concept is so closely linked with his names that it is difficult , sometimes , to separate the two . |
| 28 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 29 | Ask the man himself and it 's serious , ask his friends and it 's much more amusing |
| 30 | The story went around that once , when he was seriously ill , he was advised by his doctors that it would improve his chances of survival if he were to sleep with a woman . |