Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 2 | that 's right because he discussed it with me |
| 3 | Well it happens , and it 's made possible because he does it by his spirit . |
| 4 | But because it was idealistic it was the more persuasive when he preached it to his young contemporaries . |
| 5 | The Trevi Fountain was magnificent , too , although Nicolo was almost apologetic when he showed it to Caroline . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , there was a cast to his expression and a pitch to his voice which Harry found strangely familiar , as if , inconceivable though he knew it to be , they had met before . |
| 7 | A person doing either of the above infringes the right whether he does it in relation of the whole or a substantial part of the topography . |
| 8 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 9 | The architect and writer Frank Pennink was right when he described it as ‘ an outstanding course where anyone who can play to his handicap is doing well ’ . |
| 10 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 11 | I now prefer the analogy of the legal ‘ flak jacket ’ which protects the doctor from claims by the litigious whether he acquires it from his patient who may be a minor over the age of 16 , or a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under that age or from another person having parental responsibilities which include a right to consent to treatment of the minor . |