Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 2 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 3 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 4 | Nor could he have said it in 1985 , when the uprating was 35p per child below inflation . |
| 5 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 6 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 7 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 8 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 9 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 10 | He 's said it about three times , on last year 's Channel 4 series Paul Merton The Series , and he grafted it , unnaturally , onto his screen persona very much as an anti-catchphrase , as a joke joke . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's left it about forty years too late to get uptight about mother . ’ |