Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " 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 wrongly combined it with the Judah figure , so producing : |
| 7 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 8 | He just put it to the poor bastard . |
| 9 | He just pinched it from the Services Liaison Officer 's files in Soltau . |
| 10 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 11 | There he generously offered it to the Magistrate , who was busy carrying cartridges to the firing-step . |
| 12 | And he generally worked it during the hours of daylight , when he could be seen and people could liaise with him . |
| 13 | But if a silvery , bulging-bellied stickleback stays he soon recognizes it as a female , and changes from attack to courtship . |
| 14 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 15 | 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 … . |
| 16 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 17 | In fact the car turned out to be a souped-up grease-wagon piloted by an ageing rocker eager to prove he still had it in the nuts . |
| 18 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 24 | He also fitted it at the top end of the door . |
| 25 | He also sent it to the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition in 1955 together with his portrait of Elroy Josephs and another pastiche , Coriolanus ( Colour Plate XXI ) , based on a Signorelli in the National Gallery . |
| 26 | In 1720 Boerhaave produced an impressive catalogue of plants in the Leyden Garden , Index alter Plantarum ( 2 vols ) , and under Protea in the Dictionary Miller refers to this work ( he also included it in the bibliography ) . |
| 27 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 28 | He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion . |
| 29 | He thinks that he probably overdid it in the gym tonight . |
| 30 | 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 . |