Example sentences of "he [verb] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 2 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 3 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 4 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 5 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 6 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 7 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 8 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 9 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 10 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 11 | Yeah he call it the holy seed and that he could have righteous children . |
| 12 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 13 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 14 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 15 | Right , and then this ship , S , radios the helicopter and says , this ship J is on a bearing of , and let's say , let's say , he does it the wrong way round , is on a bearing of forty five degrees , |
| 16 | Well no he said it the other day did n't he ? |
| 17 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 18 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 19 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |