Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 3 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 4 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 5 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 6 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 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 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 10 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 11 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 12 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 13 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 14 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 15 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 16 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 17 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 18 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 21 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 22 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |