Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 2 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 3 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 4 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 5 | five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes |
| 6 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 7 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 8 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 9 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 10 | It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 . |
| 11 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 12 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 13 | So he gets it at four quid but |
| 14 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 15 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 16 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 17 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 18 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 19 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 20 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 21 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 22 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 23 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 24 | He squeezed it into one of the panniers , and snapped it shut . |
| 25 | He repeats it in 4:13 , ‘ This is how we know that we remain in him , and he in us , because he has given us a portion of his Spirit . ’ |
| 26 | He resumed it in 1954 and continued as editor until his death . |
| 27 | He bought it for twenty five quid . |
| 28 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 29 | The Scotsman , when he bought it in 1954 , was the first significant British daily ( Fleet Street included ) to go into international ownership . |
| 30 | He puts it at 370 curies ( the NRPB now guesses at 150 curies ) . |