Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 2 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 3 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
| 4 | It was much bigger than he had imagined it to be . |
| 5 | Saddam Hussein could n't make ‘ linkage ’ with diplomacy , so he 'd established it with missiles . |
| 6 | He had n't any money so he had to borrow it off Gillian . |
| 7 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 8 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 9 | Bultmann was primarily a New Testament scholar , and his theological position , once he had settled it to his own satisfaction , remained more or less inflexible thereafter . |
| 10 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 11 | And if he managed to do it without her noticing , when they got to the pub his father would be waiting there . |
| 12 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 15 | He was not entitled to withdraw the money in his account if he had obtained it by means of a false cheque . |
| 16 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 17 | If he had written it in letters of fire he could n't have made it plainer . |
| 18 | The lawyer told the court the injured party went to hospital where he was told his ear could have been sewn back on if he had brought it with him , but it was not found until the next day . |
| 19 | It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off ! |
| 20 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 21 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 22 | The observation contained an insult , but Alexei knew that if he attempted to explain it to her she would be unable to comprehend it . |
| 23 | cos he kept doing it to me so I did it to him . |
| 24 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 25 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 26 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 27 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 28 | He had ordered the strengthening of Dunbar Castle , thirty miles north of Berwick ; why , if not because he intended to use it as his base against Lothian and this Edinburgh ? |
| 29 | I waited till he had set it by the candle . |
| 30 | The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago . |