Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 2 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 3 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 4 | Then one day Mr Flowerdew he went out and bought a horse , a rather special horse ; and when he wanted it shod he sent it to the blacksmith shop at Scole , Mr Woodcock 's . |
| 5 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 6 | Tell you what I bet he had it under the blankets reading his books . |
| 7 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 8 | Yes , his victory at Doral was awesome , but he admits he did it with a suspect putter , wielded by a 49-year-old puttee , and a mind that focussed on golf to block out the loss in a fire of his $2,000,000 Florida mansion . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |
| 10 | Erm I have n't heard anything yet erm about the demo form from the erm City Council so I 'll give them a boot up their backside because it 'll be a week since he said he put it in the post so . |
| 11 | The exception is a Scottish pig farmer who stands uneasily next to the carcass of Jamie , a pig he reluctantly slaughtered and to which he was so attached he credited it with the IQ of a three-year-old child . |