Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 2 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 3 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 4 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 5 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 6 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 7 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 8 | He hoped to make it a fitting swan-song . |
| 9 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |