Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 2 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 3 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 4 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 5 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 6 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 7 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 8 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 9 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 10 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 11 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 12 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 13 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |
| 14 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 15 | His supple skin had no lines to speak of ; he preserved it with various expensive creams and face masks . |
| 16 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 17 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 18 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 19 | He remembers it with considerable affection . |
| 20 | He watched it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 21 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 22 | I do n't mind if he asks you , he says look I 'm just gon na go over stores , he took it off fucking site , did n't even know that 's where he was going ! |
| 23 | Becoming very attached to this curious animal he took it on extensive travels until its death . |
| 24 | He brought it into sharp , cruel focus . |
| 25 | The Buller of Buchan had more appeal , and he summarised it with glittering accuracy : ‘ It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . ’ |
| 26 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 27 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 28 | I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind . |
| 29 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 30 | He did it through sheer will-power , Peter had told her admiringly . |