Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [art] " 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 | Dr G 's emphasis on the creative potential of physics leads him to see it as an ‘ arts subject ’ ; Dr L , on the other hand , sees the differences between the sciences and the arts as ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 5 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 6 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 7 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The villanelle had become a triolet briefly , with Tim at TCT , before Bob at Binary had him rethink it as a rondeau . |
| 10 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 11 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |
| 12 | Daddy shreds them up — I saw him doing it with a razor blade , Steph — and burns them . |
| 13 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I I was , I were help him point it at the time . |
| 16 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 21 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 22 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He plays it with a plectrum . |
| 29 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |