Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 32 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 33 | He decided to play it like a bunker shot , nothing fancy because we were three in the lead ; he only wanted to put it out on the fairway and make a par 5 . |
| 34 | The retired bank manager , who claims to be a Di fan and a royalist , said he ‘ sweated ’ over whether to destroy the tape or approach the princess about it before he decided to hand it to a newspaper . |
| 35 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 36 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 37 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 38 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 39 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 40 | Obviously he had to put it in a letter . |
| 41 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 42 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 43 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 44 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 45 | In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success . |
| 46 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 47 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 48 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 49 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 50 | He had pledged it to the fans , but once again could n't deliver . |
| 51 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 52 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 53 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 54 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 55 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 56 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 57 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 58 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 59 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 60 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |