Example sentences of "[prep] it he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | His speech lasted three and a half hours ; most of it he read quickly in an even tone . |
2 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
3 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
4 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
5 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
6 | Edging further towards it he put out both hands . |
7 | Under it he lays down a stick ( ‘ Beowulf 's stick ’ ) . |
8 | I thought he said he got through book one but is there some stuff in it he does n't understand yet ? |
9 | In it he described how , if chicks are trained on the passive avoidance task and immediately afterwards given a mild electric shock across their heads , they seem to forget the association of taste and bead , for when offered a bead later they peck at it enthusiastically once more . |
10 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
11 | In about A.D. 300 the Emperor Diocletian built a palace here and to it he retired in about 305 . |
12 | On it he laid out a simple grid of streets with a central site for the new church of St Thomas , surrounded by 61 1 house plots . |
13 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
14 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
15 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |