Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only with Bodo , ’ Herr Nordern swore as he pulled his shirt off and it became entangled with his vest . |
| 2 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |
| 3 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 4 | Two decades later , after the clearer recognition of the distinction between insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus , Neel modified his hypothesis so that it related specifically to non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 5 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 6 | The numbing effect of complete spatial disorientation blurred his mind momentarily before it struggled to compensate . |
| 7 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 8 | picked his stuff up before it finished |
| 9 | There is every reason to believe that he would have pursued his policy even if it had been unpopular ( as it temporarily became in 1967 ) . |
| 10 | He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium . |
| 11 | He raised his voice so that it carried , and saw that some of the men in black were already raising their helmets on lance or sword points , the universal token of surrender . |
| 12 | He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below . |
| 13 | He smeared the mud across his face , and then across his scalp so that it matted in his close-cut hair . |
| 14 | Agnew Speedy coming in Ormanroyd then got in his way rather but it comes still to Thomson he lays it off to Lewis and the cross is too hard . |
| 15 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |