Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |
| 2 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 3 | He he lifts it through and pulls it till it goes on his leg . |
| 4 | Oh well that signature for it every time and it goes on his file every one has a file . |
| 5 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 6 | The capture of Jericho is clearly God 's doing , and the slaughter which follows it belongs to his intentions . |
| 7 | It belongs to his sister 's family . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , it is n't his house — it belongs to his half-brother , my employer , ’ Merrill explained hastily as Heather came forward , smiling . |
| 9 | Anyway , it belongs to his family , does n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 11 | It matters just as much to a person 's education what he learns and is taught as it matters to his salvation what he believes . |
| 12 | I suppose , in your time , a man can be as randy as he pleases ; it adds to his desirability ; proves he 's a real man … suitably virile . |
| 13 | ‘ It depends on his tone of voice , ’ said Harcourt . |
| 14 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 15 | But you all said that it depends on his skill or his what 's his name |
| 16 | It depends upon his personal honesty and intellectual competence . |
| 17 | The district judge was undoubtedly aware of it , since it features in his lengthy rehearsal of the arguments , but he did not refer to it when he came to give reasons for his ruling , which was based exclusively on an examination of the merits . |
| 18 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 19 | He pulled a switchblade from his pocket and opened it inches from his leg . |
| 20 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 21 | That 's what it says on his little card . |
| 22 | It grates between his teeth and last year he chipped off one of his fillings . |
| 23 | This chapter began with a young teacher from London moving to Somerset ; it ends with his son and daughter-in-law seeking a new life in California . |
| 24 | It shows in his face . |
| 25 | Victorian studio portraits , of course , rarely show us smiling or happy subjects ; but as master of the local school , church organist , registrar of births and deaths , secretary to the Women 's Friendly Society , stalwart of the Langport branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters and the local cricket club , Benjamin James must have felt the burden of responsibility resting heavily on his shoulders — and it shows in his face . |
| 26 | It exists inside his head and he has done everything in his power to build a Dublin of the imagination that matches this vision . |
| 27 | And it gets into his writing . |
| 28 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 29 | The importance that Bell attaches to employment changes in the occupational structure , therefore , is not a random preference ; it stems from his theoretical view of how societies change and which groups are the catalysts of change . |
| 30 | But he will only attack the other fish if it trespasses onto his territory : if the first fish trespasses onto the other male 's territory the roles are reversed . |