Example sentences of "he [verb] it in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 2 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 3 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 4 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 5 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 6 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 7 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 8 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 9 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
| 10 | He gripped it in both hands and pulled . |
| 11 | He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it . |