Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 2 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 3 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 4 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 5 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 6 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 7 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 8 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 9 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 10 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 11 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 12 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 13 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 14 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 15 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 16 | He regarded it as a testable conjecture . |
| 17 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 18 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 19 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 20 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 21 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 22 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 23 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 24 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 25 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 26 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 27 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 28 | He dismissed it with a faint , scornful laugh as he moved towards the door . |
| 29 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 30 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |