Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it sound simple , but she was no fool . |
| 2 | He took her body and he made it come alive . |
| 3 | Burton soared : he made it look effortless , and he put no one down in the process . |
| 4 | He made it seem easy — that was different : that was the pride of the macho Valley rugby player . |
| 5 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 6 | He let it come erect , then looked at it , with Hannele in his mind 's eye simultaneously . |
| 7 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 8 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 9 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
| 10 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 11 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |
| 12 | " You mean — is it Dom João ? " she asked , and when he confirmed it added half to herself , " So he is — quite important . " |
| 13 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 14 | It shot past the wizard 's head and he watched it grow smaller as it plummeted towards the circle of upturned muzzles . |
| 15 | DeFries gave everyone money to get winter coats when he decided it gets cold in the United States . |
| 16 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 17 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 18 | He saw it snapped open . |
| 19 | He said he knew it sounded crazy , but ever since he 'd read it he 'd wanted to experience it , but had never met a woman who made him feel that way . ’ |
| 20 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 21 | That 's right and we , Brian had the club slides which he very kindly handed over to us when he , he , he felt it became difficult for him to cope with it erm cos his dad 's not well . |
| 22 | said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK |
| 23 | He said it seemed inevitable that free travel for pensioners in Cleveland would have to end . |
| 24 | He said it offered high quality accommodation , was being marketed internationally and was strategically located . |
| 25 | Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ . |
| 26 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 27 | He wanted it to work more than any of us . ’ |