Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 2 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 3 | And if he was engaged on some scheme of his own , she had better leave him to pursue it without interference . |
| 4 | the Judge , will compel him to learn it by heart . |
| 5 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted him to have it after supper . |
| 7 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 8 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 9 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 10 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 11 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 12 | Jotan slid his borrowed sword out of its sheath , and he laid it with precision against the dwarfs throat . |
| 13 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 14 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 15 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 16 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 17 | He ceased it in order to speak again . |
| 18 | Now er Dick Newstat er did n't invent that phrase , he got it in fact from , from President Harry Truman tt erm in the nineteen forties . |
| 19 | Did n't he cover it at home ? |
| 20 | He read it with surprise . |
| 21 | He read it in silence , then looked from his wife to his sister-in-law , and back to his wife again . |
| 22 | He retained it beyond courtesy . |
| 23 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
| 24 | He found it in Protestantism , or at least the Calvinist version of it . |
| 25 | He regarded it with suspicion , as if afraid that it might suddenly sprout legs and run off . |
| 26 | Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido . |
| 27 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 28 | Like Samuel Pepys before him , he writes it in code . |
| 29 | On his way he spotted a large black beetle on the stairs ; he caught it between finger and thumb and took it out with him to the ramparts . |
| 30 | Such incidents might have caused Sir Bernard to have second thoughts about the system ; but he defends it with passion . |