Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 2 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 3 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 4 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 5 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 6 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 7 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 8 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 9 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 10 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 11 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 12 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 13 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 14 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 15 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 16 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 17 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 18 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 19 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 20 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 21 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 22 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 23 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 24 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 25 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He tied it to the hanging bell rope . |
| 28 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 29 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 30 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |