Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 2 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 3 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 4 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 5 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 6 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 7 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 15 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 17 | , 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had pledged it to the fans , but once again could n't deliver . |
| 25 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |