Example sentences of "it [verb] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 2 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 3 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 4 | It made him regret the passing of his youth , and the ennui he had felt before her arrival had miraculously disappeared . |
| 5 | It advised him to forgive the man and pray for him to have a change of heart . |
| 6 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 7 | For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes . |
| 8 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 9 | As it landed he felt the repulsively soft feel of Dashwood 's skin against his own . |
| 10 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 11 | ‘ Er — how long would it take him to get the part ? ’ she enquired , fearing the worst . |
| 12 | It seems he gave the fledgling architect his head . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems he prefers the company of his daughter Iryt . ’ |
| 14 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 15 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 17 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 18 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 19 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 20 | It means he grasps the situation for us and with us . |
| 21 | It urges him to safeguard the Highbury tradition and not turn the stadium into a middle class mausoleum . |
| 22 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |