Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wiped it away with the edge of his sleeve . |
| 2 | Deane waddled about seemingly distracted by something ( not the ball I might add ) and when he had a clear chance he headed it safely into the arms of Grobblebum . |
| 3 | He scrawled it quickly on the back of his card . |
| 4 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 5 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 6 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 7 | He brandishes it wildly in the air , telling everyone they are safe now . |
| 8 | He ate it alone in the police canteen . |
| 9 | He turned it momentarily towards the man in front of him . |
| 10 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 11 | He threw it deep into the wood and the dog chased after it . |
| 12 | He threw it now into the bushes . |
| 13 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
| 14 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 15 | He 's a deep forward square leg and there 's Lawrence about thirty yards away from him a little finer , here 's Tufnell the he cuts it away on the off side , that 's a fine and wide give himself a little bit of room ease that away through extra cover , steward in front of the grandstand , four more , which is the way he plays , sixteen not out . |
| 16 | He raised it threateningly above the airedale which was now crouching slavishly at his feet . |
| 17 | Leaning across the girl he placed it firmly against the pimp 's right temple . |
| 18 | He placed it carefully on the window ledge behind the curtain . |
| 19 | He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp . |
| 20 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 21 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 22 | ‘ The defendant clearly did not see the bicycle because he hit it firmly in the rear , ’ Mr Reid said . |
| 23 | If he feels that about the media in general , he feels it particularly about the Italian press . |
| 24 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 25 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 26 | He put it carefully on the centre of the table . |
| 27 | He remembered it afterwards as the oddest part of the day . |
| 28 | Then he trampled it underfoot into the frozen soil . |
| 29 | He introduced it proudly as the only television in the village . |
| 30 | And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer . |