Example sentences of "his [noun] with it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlyn handed her husband a tea towel and he scrubbed at his shirt with it . |
| 2 | Then he reaches back with his hand and rubs his foot with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , ’ Tuppe pulled a converted shirt tail from his trouser pocket and dabbed his mouth with it , ‘ that we had best finish up here and apply ourselves to adventures elsewhere . ’ |
| 4 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
| 5 | She was able to talk to his teacher , and when the teasing and probing of insensitive schoolfriends became hard to handle , Robert was able to talk about this with Theresa — he did n't want to burden his parents with it . |
| 6 | He studied electronics and accountancy , became a cashier at Wandsworth Co-op , then switched into youth work until the centre burnt down — and his job with it . |
| 7 | Dersingham took a dark-coloured paisley handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his lips and then his nose with it . |
| 8 | No man should do that unless he 's ashamed of his dealings with it . |
| 9 | He pulled out the great blade , tapping the toe of his boot with it . |
| 10 | ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Plant took a bottle from the crate and advanced towards his visitor with it . |
| 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 | The young officer held a short leather stick in a gloved hand and occasionally thumped the side of his leg with it , as if he thought he were on horseback . |
| 14 | His unfamiliarity with it was not , however , the result of indifference . |
| 15 | Tucker broke off some bread , wiped his plate with it , chewing with dainty relish before dabbing his napkin to pursed lips and fluting his fingers . |
| 16 | During his description of the interception of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro in October 1985 — his best moment at the NSC , and his fiercest crisis — North , who hardly ever used the word ‘ real ’ , suddenly peppered his account with it . |
| 17 | Between formal sessions I asked an amiable American academic precisely how he managed to familiarize his students with it , given the difficulty . |
| 18 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 19 | We had tenants in the house and one day he went missing upstairs and found a bag of lipstick , eye-liner and face powder , and decided it would be a good idea to plaster his face with it . |