Example sentences of "he [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 2 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 3 | He made it plain that he now wants to forgive and forget Mr Prescott 's deputy leadership challenge to Roy Hattersley last year . |
| 4 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 5 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 6 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
| 7 | But he made it clear that , in these identifications , desire and politics were inseparable . |
| 8 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 9 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
| 10 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 11 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 12 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 13 | More important , he made it his priority to ensure that the departments worked together , not against each other . |
| 14 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 15 | He made it , too , taking over against Pakistan in 1982 for one match when Willis was injured — and , given the most toothless of bowling attacks , losing heavily . |
| 16 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
| 17 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 18 | But he made it , and got to the station just before the train did . |
| 19 | ‘ D' you reckon he made it ? ’ said Lee . |
| 20 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 21 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 22 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 23 | Time and again , he made it run through the sequence with him . |
| 24 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches . |
| 26 | Again he made it and again Barnes converted . |
| 27 | He made it clear that , as well as a commitment from ‘ day one ’ to legislation on proportional representation , followed by a referendum , he would insist on being part of a coalition government with Cabinet posts for his MPs . |
| 28 | This time he made it . |
| 29 | When he made it big , in the mid-Seventies , Dury was a 35-year-old former art college lecturer in callipers . |
| 30 | Somehow , he made it through to the end . |