Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 3 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 4 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 5 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 6 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 7 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 8 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 9 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 10 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 11 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 12 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 13 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 14 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 15 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 16 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 17 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 18 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 19 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 20 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 21 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 22 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 23 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 24 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 25 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 26 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 27 | He tied it to the hanging bell rope . |
| 28 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 29 | He called it by the splendid portmanteau name Geheimschriifmachine — ‘ secret-writing machine ’ . |
| 30 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |