Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 2 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 3 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 4 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 5 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 6 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 7 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 8 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 9 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 10 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
| 11 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 12 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 13 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 14 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 15 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 16 | Boy thought about this reaction to the film all day , but in the end he found it unsatisfactory , both as a form of interpretation and as a form of enjoyment . |
| 17 | That way he got it all . |
| 18 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 19 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |
| 20 | In retrospect he finds it extraordinary that , with all the drinking he did , Philby was able to maintain his double life . |
| 21 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 22 | He sensed that his father was silently demanding some expression of regret , but whenever he glanced at his grim , unsmiling face he found it impossible to summon an apology to his lips . |
| 23 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |
| 24 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 25 | Likewise , if you wish your youngster to persist with a task after he has learned to do it , you should arrange things so that he is no longer rewarded every time he gets it right ( 'continuous reinforcement' is applicable , as we saw , only when the individual is acquiring a skill ) but only on the odd occasion ( a schedule called ‘ intermittent reinforcement ’ ) . |
| 26 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 27 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 28 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 29 | Out of curiosity he pushed it open . |
| 30 | While Bush welcomed Yeltsin 's visit he made it clear in public remarks that relations with the new Russian leader would not be allowed to undermine " official relations " with Gorbachev . |