Example sentences of "he [vb past] it in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 2 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 3 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 4 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 9 | he brought it in this morning |
| 10 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 11 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 12 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
| 13 | Soon her father returned and he continued it in greater detail . |
| 14 | He gripped it in both hands and pulled . |
| 15 | He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it . |