Example sentences of "[vb past] it his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first Enkidu was symbolized by a meteor falling from heaven , whose attraction to Gilgamesh was mysteriously " like the love of a woman " , and which , when shown to his mother she pronounced it his brother . |
| 2 | He was also one who believed it his role to ensure that business flourished with the least possible government intervention . |
| 3 | During his lifetime he brushed with death so frequently he called it his ‘ friend ’ . |
| 4 | She called it his Washington Square because he was professor of English in the university there . |
| 5 | His chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren , and by the early 1900s this influence in Lutyens 's work was paramount : he called it his ‘ Wrenaissance ’ . |
| 6 | THE entertainer Roy Castle received his OBE insignia from the Queen yesterday and called it his ‘ greatest up after the lowest down ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , as a leading member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal , he conceived it his duty to draw attention to any person or event which might bring science into disrepute . |
| 8 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 9 | Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang 's career from the start at the expense of his own . |
| 10 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 11 | Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again . |
| 12 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 13 | No , he replied , and before he knew it his hosts , oblivious of his religious upbringing , had offered this sacrament to him . |
| 14 | Ten years after Anselm 's death , when the tide of criticism was running strongly against Anselm at Canterbury for his failure to obtain a secure basis for the primatial claims , Eadmer thought it his best praise that he had allowed the monks to manage their own affairs . |
| 15 | He had great hopes for it , and told an American friend that he thought it his best to date . |
| 16 | On hearing of the atrocity Wilson thought it his duty to cancel the concert and to call together the 800 German seamen to explain what had happened and to share with them his horror at the deed . |
| 17 | More important , he made it his priority to ensure that the departments worked together , not against each other . |
| 18 | Charlemagne made it his capital because it was a defendable town in his own territory . |
| 19 | On my visit to New York in August of 1939 I stayed at the St Regis Hotel ( having learned it was pro-British and that the Duke of Edinburgh made it his home on Manhattan visits ) . |
| 20 | He eavesdropped on church leadership meetings in our home and then made it his business to tell everybody all that we had discussed . |
| 21 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 22 | In fact Jesus made it his business to befriend people who everyone else called failures . |
| 23 | But it certainly is n't an obvious single , although Radio 1 's Simon Mayo made it his ‘ Record Of The Week ’ which was a big help . |
| 24 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 25 | When I was at Shrewsbury School , the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks , maids and bottle-washers ; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness . |
| 26 | In any case , he recognized the success of Dej 's gambit and made it his own after 1964.4 In fact , when Khruschev was toppled by Brezhnev in the autumn of 1964 , three counts in the lengthy criticism of his methods that was levelled at Khruschev by the new Soviet leadership referred to his errors in his dealings with the Romanians . |
| 27 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 28 | James Ballingall , manager of the London and Kirkaldy Shipping Company and a former seaman , made it his business to advertise weaknesses of naval architecture as well as crewing and a Select Committee of 1836 found British ships to be ill constructed and badly maintained and their masters and officers frequently drunken and incompetent . |
| 29 | Ellwood made it his landmark . |
| 30 | James made it his personal business to know everyone else 's . |