Example sentences of "he [verb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court .
2 He made it a statement rather than a question .
3 He made it a statement .
4 " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin .
5 He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’
6 In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him .
7 He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself .
8 For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied .
9 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
10 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 .
11 He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly .
12 If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success .
13 and er he said he used it every day he said oh er , now I know the value I shall have to tell my bridge pals
14 The phrase gave him satisfaction ; he used it a lot .
15 From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises .
16 He says it every time I fall asleep on settee .
17 Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late .
18 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 .
19 He says he uses it every week and has n't had any problems .
20 He regrets it the moment he says it .
21 Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts .
22 When he touched it the doors swung open instantly and with a disconcerting noiselessness .
23 But he calls it a world , and he 's such a good writer that he can make it seem like one .
24 He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Would n't he call it a day , and let me go home ?
30 So why does he call it a shadow then ?
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