Example sentences of "he [vb -s] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 6 | He scrapes it round the edge of the light metal ashtray until the tip of the fag is a perfect cone , then smokes it carefully . |
| 7 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 8 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 9 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 11 | Appropriately enough for this stage of development , where the light is identified as a separate source , he equates it with the lamp in the myth of Psyche and Eros . |
| 12 | He handles it with the familiarity of a mother with her baby , yet he has a look in his eyes as if he was removing specks of vomit . |
| 13 | How much does he buy it for , he got , he buys it from the market . |
| 14 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 15 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 16 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 18 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 19 | He bowls more consistently , he gets it in the area that troubles top test class batsman which is off stump , a decent height and a decent pace , without really falling all over the shot , only come with experience . |
| 20 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |
| 21 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 22 | At the same time , where the same aspect appears both in his tradition and in others , he interprets it through the ears of the former . |
| 23 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 24 | I had to , Richard had taken the car , he takes it in the morning , but |
| 25 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 26 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 27 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 28 | The butcher holds the head by the hair and deftly scalps it , then , tying the long black hair into a knot , he tosses it into the gully . |
| 29 | He throws it into the water , and that immediately becomes sweet . |
| 30 | He throws it on the bed . |