Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 2 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 3 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 4 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 5 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 6 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 7 | When the Chilaw kachcheri queried a sale voucher counterfoil submitted by a headman , it was explained that the seller had branded the animal with his grandfather 's name , Nicholas , because he believed it a lucky name in cattle breeding . |
| 8 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 9 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 10 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 11 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 12 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 13 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 14 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 15 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 16 | First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over . |
| 17 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 18 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 19 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 20 | He felt it a boring thing he had to do as he would probably rather do something else but nevertheless it had to be done , not to save his reputation but restore his self-respect which he felt he did not have fully if someone was allowed to insult him and get away with it . |
| 21 | He felt it a necessary part of his vocation . |
| 22 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 23 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 24 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 25 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 26 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 27 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 28 | Then , in September 1989 , in The Independent , he gave it a different slant : ‘ The idea of Active Citizenship , ’ he wrote , ‘ is a necessary complement to that of the enterprise culture . |
| 29 | Well no he said it the other day did n't he ? |
| 30 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |