Example sentences of "he [verb] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 2 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 3 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 4 | When he came to , the doctor who performed it admitted to Dustin that he might have choked to death had he undergone it the night before . |
| 5 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 6 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 7 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 8 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 9 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 10 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 11 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 12 | He gave it the name Shahjehanabad — that is to say , ‘ Built by Shah Jehan ’ . |
| 13 | He gave it the significance of a personal belief and turning lazily in his chair to inform Charles with more than a trace of arrogance , ‘ Old Guards ’ proverb . ’ |
| 14 | He gave it the strength of his spine it ate everything |
| 15 | He gave it the blood of his face it grew eager |
| 16 | He leaves it the honour of still defending what it would have perhaps abandoned . ’ |