Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 2 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 3 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 4 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 5 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 6 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 7 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 8 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 9 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 10 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 11 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 12 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 13 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 14 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 15 | Polo is a team game , hunting is a gregarious activity , and he uses it as such . |
| 16 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 17 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 19 | Did he see it as some kind of a challenge ? |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , but will he see it like that ? ’ |
| 21 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 22 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 23 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 24 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 25 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 26 | He was most terribly afraid of the ferret , but he loved it with all his heart . |
| 27 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 28 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 29 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 30 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |