Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 2 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 3 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 6 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 7 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 8 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 9 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 10 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 12 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 13 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 14 | And he booked it over the phone , said Is it a standard flat ? which was a silly thing to ask cos to everybody who lives in a house , they 've a standard amount of furniture . |
| 15 | One name caught his eye and he programmed it into the computer . |
| 16 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 17 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 18 | He holds it in his mouth , he picks out a match and he strikes it on the box . |
| 19 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 20 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
| 21 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 22 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 23 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 25 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 26 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 27 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 28 | And he thrust it into the jeep , as Shelley , rather puzzled by his ready agreement , shifted herself into the driving seat . |
| 29 | His approach , in its essentials , was formed by the early 1930s , and he extends it during the 1940s only in the direction of even greater pessimism : cultural ‘ totalitarianism ’ becomes absolute . |
| 30 | And he kept it on the fairway all day . |