Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 2 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 3 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 4 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 5 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 6 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 7 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 8 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 9 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 10 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 11 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 12 | He remembers it with considerable affection . |
| 13 | He watched it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 14 | I do n't mind if he asks you , he says look I 'm just gon na go over stores , he took it off fucking site , did n't even know that 's where he was going ! |
| 15 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 16 | He did it through sheer will-power , Peter had told her admiringly . |
| 17 | He had come to it relatively late in his short life , having dulled the joys of promiscuity , music and organization early on , and like everything else he took an interest in , he did it with terrifying brilliance . |
| 18 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 19 | Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought . |
| 20 | He , he mixed it with hot milk ? |
| 21 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |
| 22 | He said it with absolute certainty . |
| 23 | He said it with extraordinary force , his face reddening below the dark skin and the eyes gone black again with anger . |
| 24 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |