Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 2 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 3 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 4 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 5 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 6 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 7 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 8 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 9 | I I was , I were help him point it at the time . |
| 10 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 11 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 14 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 15 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 16 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 17 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 18 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 19 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 20 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 21 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 22 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 23 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 24 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |
| 27 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 28 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 29 | He passed it over the table , and courteously got up to give Catherine a second copy . |
| 30 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |