Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 2 | Implicit in Paul 's description of another student is the idea that , although the student did n't do what was required , he got round it in such a clever and ingenious way , that he still deserved to do well in it ; indeed , Paul said that ‘ there is less understanding in lab work than there is ingenuity ’ . |
| 3 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 4 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 5 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 6 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 7 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 8 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 9 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 10 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 11 | He looked at it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 12 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 13 | He stared at it in frozen incomprehension . |
| 14 | ‘ I started the sport relatively late , but I 'm still improving , ’ he said as we took a breather at the end of a run through soft but stodgy powder ( he floated over it with extreme grace while I plunged head first into it like a deranged puppy ) . |
| 15 | Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape . |
| 16 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 17 | He sat in it for fourteen hours a day , hoping to get about £2,000 for all the appeals which lay before him . ’ |
| 18 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |