Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 32 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 33 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 34 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 35 | He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane . |
| 36 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 37 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 38 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 39 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 40 | His central point , as he put it before the National Press Club on May 4th , was that ‘ you certainly ca n't help Hong Kong by hurting our economy . ’ |
| 41 | Thompson on the other hand was keen to await the Great Eastern 's launch , for he envisioned it as the ideal cable-layer . |
| 42 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |
| 43 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 44 | It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour . |
| 45 | Morton Pitt added rooms on the south elevation in 1823 when he converted it into the ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL . |
| 46 | Well , he gave it to the dirty little bugger . |
| 47 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 48 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 49 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 50 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 51 | Taking the oddly shaped metal comb from the pocket of his shirt , he ran it through the short oily hair on top of his head . |
| 52 | He bandaged it with the remaining strip of cloth . |
| 53 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
| 54 | Somehow he had pulled free the phosphorus grenade , detonating it as he held it against the stinking flesh of the mercifully unseen horror that was ripping him apart . |
| 55 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
| 56 | The blue eyes regarded the world with the slightly cynical assurance of a man accustomed to getting what he wanted when he wanted it by the simplest of expedients , that of paying for it . |
| 57 | In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so . |