Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried an axe in order to be able to smash down illegal obstacles , but there is no mention of him having to use it in 1983 . |
| 2 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |
| 3 | He agreed to sell it to me . ’ |
| 4 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 5 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 6 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 7 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 8 | And the court was told that the victim 's ear could have been saved — but he failed to take it with him to the hospital . |
| 9 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 10 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 11 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 12 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 13 | He tried to explain it to her , but she did n't know what he was talking about . |
| 14 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 15 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 16 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 17 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 18 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 19 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 20 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 21 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 22 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 23 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 24 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 25 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 26 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 27 | His ideas are all he has to do it with . |
| 28 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 29 | He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’ |
| 30 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |