Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1 When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away .
2 Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well .
3 To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently .
4 ‘ I knew he kept it here .
5 He thought he had it pretty clear from Peter 's testimony that Place had indeed fired first and that the boy knew it .
6 He thought he had it now .
7 Did he do it yesterday ?
8 Did he do it yesterday as well ?
9 ‘ Then he asked , ‘ How did he do it then ?
10 Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ?
11 Or perhaps — such a suggestion rises in me only because I have lain next to the contagious soul of Gustave himself — did he gather it elsewhere ?
12 Did he feel it too , this bathing of their twin souls in their own primeval element ?
13 Nor did he fancy it greatly ; after some years away from Mrs Lorimer 's hotel and of looking after himself , eating exactly what he liked , it was hard to get used to her iron hand with a potato .
14 Oh did he take it upstairs ?
15 Or did he know it already ?
16 Did he have it away , Hatch ?
17 How did he get it so badly wrong ?
18 And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ?
19 They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot .
20 Nor did he dismiss it outright , though he said that my first duty should be to my family , with which of course I concurred .
21 So that 's an important point and one which is not in Freud 's book although I 'd like to think it would have been , had he written it much later on when , when group erm therapy had become very fashionable .
22 I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process .
23 Or had he read it wrongly ?
24 Charles said he knew it well , being just off Eaton Square and close to his place of work .
25 That man with that ten thousand table , apparently he said he use it nearly every day
26 Taliesin , hearing this , at once uncorked the wine flask and offered it to Calatin , who accepted it , said he took it very kindly of Taliesin , and drained the flask in two gulps .
27 He said he thought it very good advice but would not take it .
28 Feldstein had given Holly a magazine and said he wanted it no longer .
29 Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make .
30 General Motors Corp may need to sell a stake in Electronic Data Systems Corp in order to overcome a $14,000m worldwide pension obligation , industry analysts told Reuter : chief financial officer Richard Wagoner said the automaker plans to make a ‘ significant contribution ’ into its pension fund this year and next year , and over the next six or seven years , hopes to eliminate its pension fund liability completely ; analysts say it could raise almost $5,000m by selling a 25% stake in the computer services giant , and Lehman Brothers automotive analyst Joseph Phillippi said he expects it either to sell a stake or return to the equity markets ; officials from both the General and British Telecommunications Plc say that any deal for the UK phone giant to buy a stake in EDS is far from certain .
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