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Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
3	Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation .
4	The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million .
5	He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance .
6	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 .
7	He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
8	Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion .
9	Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out .
10	He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud .
11	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 .
12	Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth .
13	He opened it at the relevant page .
14	Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk .
15	Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick .
16	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 .
17	He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later .
18	He returned it to the failed initiate without comment .
19	He raised it to the blushing Thérèse .
20	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 .
21	He tied it to the hanging bell rope .
22	He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench .
23	He called it by the splendid portmanteau name Geheimschriifmachine — ‘ secret-writing machine ’ .
24	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 .
25	He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma .
26	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 .
27	He turned the car , his hands moving swiftly and expertly as he manoeuvred it in the narrow lane .
28	One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot .
29	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 . ’
30	Thompson on the other hand was keen to await the Great Eastern 's launch , for he envisioned it as the ideal cable-layer .