Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] 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 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 12 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 21 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 22 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 23 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 24 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 25 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 26 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 27 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 28 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 29 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 30 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |