Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 5 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 6 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 7 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 8 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 11 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 12 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 13 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 14 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 17 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 18 | He buried it in the back garden , near the fence , overlooking the park that overlooks the city of which his father was so proud . |
| 19 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 20 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 21 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 22 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 23 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 24 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 25 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 26 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 27 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 28 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 29 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 30 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |