Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 2 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 3 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |
| 4 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 5 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 6 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 7 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 8 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 9 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 10 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 11 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 12 | The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago . |
| 13 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |