Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 2 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 3 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 4 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 5 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 6 | five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes |
| 7 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 8 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 9 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 10 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 11 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 12 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 13 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 14 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 15 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 16 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 17 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 18 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |
| 20 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 21 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 22 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 23 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 24 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 25 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 26 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 27 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 28 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 29 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 30 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |