Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 2 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 3 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 4 | So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied . |
| 5 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 6 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 7 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 8 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 9 | Her hair had been pinned up , and he brought it tumbling down around her face as he raked his fingers through it , then he gripped it in a bunch at the back of her head so that he could more easily drag his mouth over her upturned lips in a kiss that sent spasms of unwanted desire shooting to the depths of her being . |
| 10 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 11 | And then he amended it with a feeble trace of his old Manner : ‘ I accept your offer . ’ |
| 12 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 13 | Again he froze it with a quick stare , and was able to repeat this process time and again . |