Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 2 | When darkness came he ventured out , selecting a large potato — which tasted awful although he ate it all . |
| 3 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 4 | Rhoda Brocklebank had a part too , although he found it hard to give it a name . |
| 5 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 6 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 7 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 8 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 9 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 10 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 11 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 12 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 13 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 14 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 15 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 16 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 17 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 18 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 19 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 20 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he hated the idea of dividing the family property , so he left it all to my elder brother . |
| 22 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 23 | As the black perfume came tumbling over his breast , and he kissed it sweet in the moonlight , a sweet in the moonlight , and he tugged at his reigns in the moonlight , and galloped away to the west . |
| 24 | There , he was given a plate of magic fairy dust to eat and he ate it all up , feeling strong and happy . |
| 25 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 26 | The conclusion drawn in the Malleus Maleficarum , the handbook on witchcraft written in 1486 by two Dominican friars , was that this made tears displeasing to the Devil , and he made it impossible for witches to cry so that they would never find repentance . |
| 27 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 28 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
| 29 | He annoyed me , it did n't mean anything to him , and he made it clear in his miserable I'll-take-your-word-for-it way that he did n't really care . |
| 30 | Blood-stained trousers indicated that Putt had suffered other injuries and he made it clear that he was unable to walk . |