Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity .
2 He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm .
3 Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs .
4 Although he accepted it with trepidation .
5 Although he accepted it with trepidation .
6 He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants .
7 Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve .
8 But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it .
9 ‘ Now , let's stop right there , ’ George said sharply , and his voice was louder than he meant it to be .
10 The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket .
11 Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime .
12 On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant .
13 So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again .
14 And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ?
15 He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen .
16 The governor , fearing for his life , drew his sword and attacked Paulus , but his aim was either too feeble or misdirected to be effective , so he plunged it into his own body .
17 The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century .
18 He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that .
19 ‘ He could n't get it up me , so he did it in my mouth . ’
20 But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early .
21 Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ?
22 Once he said it to the answering service .
23 He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged .
24 One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack .
25 With the final instruction that Thoth was to cover his tracks until he contacted it from Gaiah , the new Ewan bid a mournful farewell to the facility that had become his home , and stepped out into the walkways of the base .
26 If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader .
27 If he cut it above himself he presumably fell , and in that case his life was evidently saved by something approaching a miracle — at any rate , we know that he was saved because otherwise he would be beyond the jurisdiction and the question would have no legal interest .
28 Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet .
29 Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area .
30 He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention and authority if he felt it to be an impediment to his calling .
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