Example sentences of "he [verb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He bought it a few days ago . |
| 32 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 33 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 34 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 35 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 36 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 37 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 38 | Then , in September 1989 , in The Independent , he gave it a different slant : ‘ The idea of Active Citizenship , ’ he wrote , ‘ is a necessary complement to that of the enterprise culture . |
| 39 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 40 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 41 | He gave it a few more minutes . |
| 42 | Right , and then this ship , S , radios the helicopter and says , this ship J is on a bearing of , and let's say , let's say , he does it the wrong way round , is on a bearing of forty five degrees , |
| 43 | Well no he said it the other day did n't he ? |
| 44 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 45 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 46 | When the group began , Gedge was not particularly interest in lyric-writing , and like singing , he considered it a necessary evil . |
| 47 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 48 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |