Example sentences of "it his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 2 | Was Leonard aware , even at such a tender age , of the sense of grief his father had , not only in his life being shortened but with it his usefulness ? |
| 3 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 4 | But he has made it his business to master the terminology of the economic debate , and applied to the problem an elegant and sophisticated technique of intellectual biography . |
| 5 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 6 | Rudd designed the chassis , calling it his ‘ overstressed skin car ’ . |
| 7 | Is it his anima ? |
| 8 | Bell Resources is a crucial element in the deal , since Mr Bond planned to sell it his Australian brewing interests — including Castlemaine XXXX — and then launch a bid for the enlarged group with the backing of Lion Nathan . |
| 9 | More important , he made it his priority to ensure that the departments worked together , not against each other . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatsoever then , he removes out of the state that nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his property . ’ |
| 11 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 12 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |
| 13 | Christ , in some mysterious way , takes upon himself our folly and failure and makes it his own , so that we may go free . |
| 14 | It is of nature created and hallowed by a personal God who pours into it his creativity and love . |
| 15 | This takes me into my second point : Advent means that through Christ this world has a destiny because God has poured into it his hope . |
| 16 | Even without it his question encapsulates all that is selfish and ruthless among human beings . |
| 17 | To that extent — until war eventually came in 1513 , and with it his death — James IV undoubtedly had the best of both worlds , the pleasure but not the pain and the expense . |
| 18 | Charlemagne made it his capital because it was a defendable town in his own territory . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Gooch will play it his own way , whoever captains Pakistan . |
| 21 | During his lifetime he brushed with death so frequently he called it his ‘ friend ’ . |
| 22 | Then Señor Louis goin' run this leetle country like it his hacienda . |
| 23 | Instead , it his removed from teachers a defence to civil proceedings . |
| 24 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 25 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 26 | But in the best English tradition he did not consider it his business to equip his deficient students with tools they had not got . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Was it his lordship 's wish that the Chinaman on the upstairs landing should be exchanged with the one outside this door ? ’ |
| 29 | Doing it his way , he can make lots of money as a New York dentist , and buy a few nice icon things for himself . |
| 30 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |