Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 3 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 4 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 5 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 6 | He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’ |
| 7 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 8 | He told reporters he was overwhelmed by the unexpected prize and said he plans to donate it to the Prison Fellowship . |
| 9 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 10 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 11 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 12 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 14 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 15 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 16 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 17 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 18 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |