Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 2 | The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Afterwards , she lay naked , warm and quiescent in the curve of his arm , listening to his laboured breathing , feeling the fast , steady beat of his heart as it thundered against her cheek , knowing that it could never have been so good , so satisfying for both of them if she had n't loved him . |
| 5 | He was right to be prouder of his divertissement La chasse du cerf than of anything he had written previously , for he was somewhat out of his depth when it came to setting dramatic texts . |
| 6 | His hat was stuck on top of his head but it looked as though it would blow off at any minute . |
| 7 | In addition to these requirements a responsible person may be required to keep the supervisor informed of his address if it differs from the child 's ( para 3(3) ) . |
| 8 | It 's also the fact that I know for a fact , I know for a fact that she 's very frightened of his temper when it happens . |
| 9 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
| 10 | Lightly I brought the .38 down on the knuckles of his hand as it rested on a table . |
| 11 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 12 | I watched the light of his lantern until it disappeared . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The sensation rocked through her , and she wanted only to remain there , feeling the suggestive thrust of his tongue as it explored the inner softness of her mouth and gently , expertly made her intensely and inescapably aware of the hard , pulsing heat of his virile manhood pressing insistently against her thighs . |
| 15 | The wetness of his tongue as it slipped over them made Kate arch her back with delight . |
| 16 | The sound of his breath as it sawed and whistled in his throat mingled with the rush and whicker of wind among the trees . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her mumbled protest was lost in the fierce burn of his mouth as it claimed hers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the past , not the future , now claimed him : on this same trip to New York , he told William Turner Levy that he had dreamed of his family as it had been when he was a small child . |
| 21 | That , you see that privet , that 's not the end of his garden because it 's foreshortened . |
| 22 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 23 | She could almost write his hurt for him , his wonder at another of Sylvie 's acts , trace the workings of his mind as it ferreted out reasons , laid blame at his own doorstep . |
| 24 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 25 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 26 | Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away . |
| 27 | The blond man 's T-shirt had been removed and tucked into his belt so it hung limply behind him . |
| 28 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 29 | The man got trapped under his parachute when it hit the water at Holywell Bay , Newquay , Cornwall . |
| 30 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |