Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brook has not simply plonked the cameras in front of his original production : he has re-conceived it in filmic terms , making obvious concessions to cinematic literalism while retaining the sense of wonder . |
| 2 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 3 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 4 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 5 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 6 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 7 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 8 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 9 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 10 | Now it seems to me that er Yeltsin 's that kind of Russian patriot and he 's shown it by concluding treaties as equal partners with Ukraine , with the Baltic Republics and so on er in which he said that er Russia is no longer going to interfere in their internal affairs , so they they are equal partners in these treaties . |