Example sentences of "it [vb past] he [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 2 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 3 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 4 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 5 | He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness . |
| 6 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 7 | It introduced him to the human race . |
| 8 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 9 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 10 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 11 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |