Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 2 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 3 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 4 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 5 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 7 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 8 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 9 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 10 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 11 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 12 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 13 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 14 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 15 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 16 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 17 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 18 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 19 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 20 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 21 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 22 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 23 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 24 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 25 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 26 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 27 | We know that Wordsworth thought highly of this entry , for he began to copy it into a notebook , and used its phrases in a fragment of poetry : |
| 28 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 29 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 30 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |