Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
2 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
3 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
4 | But to Dustin 's credit he recognised it as a role in which he could immediately dissociate himself from the whole ‘ image ’ concept of acting , as well as prove that , ‘ I was a character actor , not just this nebbish kid that Nichols found . |
5 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
6 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
7 | Without a word he brought it to the table beside her bed and put it carefully down . |
8 | When Booth 's assistant visited the church he praised it as a ‘ great and successful attempt to adapt the aspiring and inspiriting beauty of Gothic architecture to the congregational ideal ’ . |
9 | Tony signalled her not to annoy Frank in case he used it as an excuse to follow Terry , but he only seemed amused . |
10 | Then , when the boy was n't looking in his direction he hurled it towards the pool . |
11 | Gray , for instance , looks a class act and although last night 's display was not his most dynamic in a green shirt he marked it with a goal of sheer quality . |
12 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
13 | Before the letter could contaminate him with reason he pushed it into the fire and watched it burn . |
14 | But she trusted him , saw the way he handled it through the bends , fed the power in as it was required , was part of the hurtling machine that he controlled so gently . |
15 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
16 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
17 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
18 | At the last Christmas party he proved it with a stunning virtuoso performance in the restaurant , where he mimed to Abba records using a salt cellar as a microphone . |