Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 2 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 3 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 4 | He coaxed it along with flawless control of line and colour as it was developed with equal measures of logic and charm . |
| 5 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 6 | He followed it up by further personal diplomacy , this time with Russia . |
| 7 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 8 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 9 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 10 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 11 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 12 | He rang it again at seven o'clock at night to warn the gleaners that their work for that day must end . |
| 13 | He took it slowly in four-wheel drive , the road much narrower here , the outer edge of it crumbling away . |
| 14 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 15 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 16 | Now , in a moment of crisis , he took it in with startling clarity . |
| 17 | He took it seriously at first , affronted that anyone could say anything about anyone so close to him , but before very long , he saw the funny side . |
| 18 | You know he borrowed the hairbrush from me , he brought it back in this |
| 19 | He sank into the part with total conviction or — just the opposite — he put it on with open contempt and boredom . |
| 20 | When the passport was very wet , he tore it slowly into little pieces . |
| 21 | And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions . |
| 22 | He did it carefully at first , only a handful at a time , saving every shilling made . |
| 23 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 25 | A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both . |
| 26 | He smoked it deliberately in slow puffs , giving Peter time to consider their situation . |
| 27 | He pushed it back against some pressure from inside . |
| 28 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |
| 29 | He gripped it again with both hands and yanked hard . |
| 30 | For a moment his fingers trembled , hovering over it , and then he gripped it firmly with both hands . |