Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I saw this , I saw this programme , I saw his programme and it said , no , listen , listen , no listen , bulimia 's where you eat too much |
| 32 | He still looked a bit dubious and David said , ‘ One thing you can tell Len , something I forgot , was that I made enquiries today about his parrot and it appears that if he does go to Conway House he 'll be able to take the parrot with him . |
| 33 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 34 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |
| 35 | It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned . |
| 36 | He had executed in public deserters from his battalion when it fought for its life on the Basra to Baghdad road . |
| 37 | The Captain picked up his telephone before it had time to ring . |
| 38 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 39 | One fella were told they did his erm summat to his engine and it blew up did n't it ? |
| 40 | for his lunch but it does n't really matter . |
| 41 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 42 | Death was his business and it had to be organised efficiently . |
| 43 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 44 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 45 | Another landed on his cheek where it sizzled and went out . |
| 46 | The injury is half way down his off-fore and it looks as though he will be out for the rest of the season . |
| 47 | He knew that he had somehow to stay here on the headland , to keep always in view that monstrous building which dominated his imagination as it did his view . |
| 48 | He has guarded fiercely against the band 's tapes being made public but listening to them years on , it is difficult to understand his uneasiness and it seems a loss to fans . |
| 49 | She slipped her left leg under his arm and ran the inside of her right thigh across the underside of his cock until it nestled against her groin . |
| 50 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 51 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 52 | Sunny Jim drops his pizza and it gets all over Sam 's right cuff . |
| 53 | Water dripped from his elbow where it bent , holding the phone up to his ear . |
| 54 | His hat was stuck on top of his head but it looked as though it would blow off at any minute . |
| 55 | ‘ He was n't keen to put his head where it hurts and that does n't go down well here . |
| 56 | He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie . |
| 57 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
| 58 | With fiery hands , he lifted the besuited killer off the ground , and bent his back until it snapped . |
| 59 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 60 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |