Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 13 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 14 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 15 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 16 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 17 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 18 | Whereas if he raised it through a levy on Copts that would be wildly popular with everyone else . |
| 19 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 20 | If he hit it into the wall … at least it took someone out : - ) , and with the power he got behind it … when it was on target it was in . |
| 21 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 22 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 23 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 24 | Apollinaire had recently finished writing Le Bestiaire au Cortège d'Orphée and felt the name to be applicable to Delaunay 's work , partly because it was more lyrical and sensuous than the rather austere Cubism of the period , and also because he saw it as a form of ‘ peinture pure ’ which had analogies with music . |
| 25 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 26 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 27 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 28 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 29 | One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed . |
| 30 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |