Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any'ow my Billy ai n't got much , an' what 'e 'as got 'e 's keepin' it fer 'imself . ’ |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 4 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 5 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 6 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 7 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 8 | I take that as the hon. Gentleman 's first spending commitment , except that he is making it on behalf of employers and businesses . |
| 9 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 10 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 11 | If he is going down to defeat , as I suspect he is , he is doing it in style . |
| 12 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 13 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 14 | He is offering it for airshows next season |
| 15 | But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank . |
| 16 | He 's undergoing laser treatment but as everybody will point out to you , when he 's in the Tardis and he 's operating the computer , even with his glasses on , he 's reading it like this . |
| 17 | He 's spoiling it for others . |
| 18 | Well while he 's raking it in every bloody week for sitting on his behind in parliament there , he can pay for them ! |
| 19 | He 's taking it off the wrong has n't he ? |
| 20 | Well no , Ellie could oh , he 's taking it with him . |
| 21 | He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow . |
| 22 | he 's getting it in the gones . |
| 23 | No wonder he 's pushing it through doors he do n't want to come within gate . |
| 24 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 25 | He 's saving it for his kids , that 's what he says . |
| 26 | He has obtained a fighter , Bf 1 10 , and he 's flying it to Britain . |
| 27 | He 's done it on a shoestring budget to boot and , inevitably , such achievement has n't gone unnoticed in other Premier League boardrooms . |
| 28 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He 's done it to Dave Seaman and Chris Waddle and I do n't think that 's the way to do things . |
| 30 | And , what 's more , he 's done it without sacrificing the lightness and strength of the guitar , nor any of its internal volume . |