Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 2 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 5 | The hook ( a ) Slide back to avoid the opponent 's front kick , then hook his foot as it lands |
| 6 | He felt he might even have given the captain a good run for his money if it had n't been for the damn man 's obvious advantage of height and weight . |
| 7 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 8 | He had brushed most of the knots and tangles from his hair and scrubbed his skin until it hurt . |
| 9 | He opened his eyes , rubbing his face with both hands , increasing the speed of the jets so that the water stung his skin when it struck him . |
| 10 | His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s . |
| 11 | A man leaps from his canoe as it hurtles towards us . |
| 12 | Mr Prior has been involved in planning new kitchens while working in major restaurants and hotel groups , so he decided to use all his experience when it came to his own establishment . |
| 13 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her mumbled protest was lost in the fierce burn of his mouth as it claimed hers . |
| 16 | Corbett settled his horse as it fidgeted nervously at the rustling of some animal in the undergrowth at the side of the track . |
| 17 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 18 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 19 | After sex the man should withdraw his penis before it gets limp , as otherwise the rubber may come off . |
| 20 | She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her . |
| 21 | Incidentally , the Minister of State knows that he has got a real pressure group round his neck when it comes to disability and the disabled . |
| 22 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 23 | A man was released from his car after it crashed in Longford Road , Middlesbrough , shortly before 8pm last night . |
| 24 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 25 | Nigel Cramer had had time to warn Quinn , speaking from his car as it sped towards Scotland Yard . |
| 26 | We follow his car as it winds through the hollows and around the hills until we reach the Moss No.3 Preparation Plant where the Pittston Company cleans and grades its coal before moving it out to power stations or abroad . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 29 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 30 | Shaw said : ‘ It 's difficult to work out his programme but it seems that he analysed his subjects and classified their attributes , their doings , and the major events in their lives by coded numbers . |