Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 2 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 3 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 4 | How you look at someone , the attention you give them and your body language are all means of communication and can have a strong effect upon the recipient , even if he only perceives it on a subconscious level . |
| 5 | He would have returned it , of course , he only wanted it for a painting . |
| 6 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 7 | But if a silvery , bulging-bellied stickleback stays he soon recognizes it as a female , and changes from attack to courtship . |
| 8 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 9 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 10 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 11 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 12 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 13 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 14 | Mention UK hip hop and he immediately denounces it as a pale imitation of the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 15 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 16 | He then holed it for a three . |
| 17 | Firstly , a couple of birds were scared up out of a nearby bush by his call ; and secondly , there was a detonation so loud that he almost felt it as a physical shockwave . |
| 18 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 19 | He never does it on a path or nothing , he always reverses in somewhere . |
| 20 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |