Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice . |
| 2 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 3 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 4 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | So he raised it through the land army , for the transfer , it was alright with the farmers and everybody else . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 10 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
| 11 | Alexei still had the pole of the lantern in one hand , and now he forced it through the rail at the side of the bridge , then stripped off his coat and draped it artistically , crowning the lantern with his fur hat . |
| 12 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 13 | Two months ago he put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 14 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 15 | Then he took it with a brief word of thanks . |
| 16 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 17 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 18 | Then he hurled it off the roof as far as he could , shouting at the top of his voice a threat to all evil spirits : warning them that tonight was the night they must leave the village for good . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then he put it in the bag and wrapped the blanket round the bottle . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And then he amended it with a feeble trace of his old Manner : ‘ I accept your offer . ’ |
| 23 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 24 | Morton Pitt added rooms on the south elevation in 1823 when he converted it into the ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Again he froze it with a quick stare , and was able to repeat this process time and again . |
| 27 | Actually he pinpointed it to the day I came back from hospital . |