Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 2 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 3 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 4 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 5 | Jotan slid his borrowed sword out of its sheath , and he laid it with precision against the dwarfs throat . |
| 6 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 7 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 8 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 9 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 10 | He ceased it in order to speak again . |
| 11 | Now er Dick Newstat er did n't invent that phrase , he got it in fact from , from President Harry Truman tt erm in the nineteen forties . |
| 12 | Did n't he cover it at home ? |
| 13 | He read it with surprise . |
| 14 | He read it in silence , then looked from his wife to his sister-in-law , and back to his wife again . |
| 15 | He retained it beyond courtesy . |
| 16 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
| 17 | He found it in Protestantism , or at least the Calvinist version of it . |
| 18 | He regarded it with suspicion , as if afraid that it might suddenly sprout legs and run off . |
| 19 | Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido . |
| 20 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 21 | Like Samuel Pepys before him , he writes it in code . |
| 22 | On his way he spotted a large black beetle on the stairs ; he caught it between finger and thumb and took it out with him to the ramparts . |
| 23 | Such incidents might have caused Sir Bernard to have second thoughts about the system ; but he defends it with passion . |
| 24 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 25 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 26 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 27 | It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps . |
| 28 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 29 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 30 | Did he do it without permission ? |