Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 2 | As he tried to explain it later , when the ruins of arms-for-hostages were all around him , ‘ his heart and his best intentions ’ had ruled him . |
| 3 | He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner . |
| 4 | He tried to read it again , upside down , but the Captain picked it up , murmuring as he glanced through it : ‘ It 's obvious from the way you sit . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't really understand all this Italian , ’ said Kaler , who played a paranoid John Paul II , as he tried to decipher it afterwards . |
| 6 | He changed history , he tried to make it right . |
| 7 | Throughout his period in office , de Gaulle stuck to this line ( and to the principle of a decentralized Germany ) , although he tried to make it more palatable by recasting it in terms of Germany 's integration within a larger West European bloc . |
| 8 | He stopped to wipe it away , then sighted again . |
| 9 | Cook tells me he 'd seen it somewhere and wanted one for his wife . |
| 10 | The signature certainly looked right , he 'd seen it often enough , but then it would be easy for Himmler to get the Führer 's signature on something , just one document amongst many . |
| 11 | He 'd seen it quite clearly . |
| 12 | He 'd played it very cool , they both had . |
| 13 | Bryant thought he 'd lost it then ! |
| 14 | He 'd done it again , she thought morosely , yet for a while , back there in the field , she 'd felt almost like her old self , the person she had been before Ryan had come into her life . |
| 15 | He 'd done it again — made her lose her temper all over again , and she could n't even understand why . |
| 16 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 17 | Well I just to well he 'd done it before And I said to them , Oh captain 'll take you . |
| 18 | Cocaine debts , he said — though he 'd kicked it long ago . |
| 19 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 20 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 21 | He 'd made it very clear any relationship between them was over . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 23 | She glanced surreptitiously downward , wondering if he 'd felt it too , but his expression gave nothing away . |
| 24 | He 'd timed it right , for the whole of the top of the wall then disintegrated in a shower of fragments and dust . |
| 25 | Perhaps he 'd timed it perfectly . |
| 26 | I rang up , just to check that he 'd taken it straight along there , like I told him to , and they said I had to fill in all these forms . |
| 27 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 28 | He said his lawyer had persuaded him to contest his father 's will and that he 'd regretted it ever since . |
| 29 | So he 'd enjoyed it too . |
| 30 | But perhaps he 'd left it too late . |