Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 2 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 3 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 14 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 17 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Obviously he had to put it in a letter . |
| 22 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 23 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 30 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |