Example sentences of "he [verb] it in [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 He got it in nine seconds .
3 He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich .
4 He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone .
5 It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 .
6 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 .
7 And he cut it in ten blocks .
8 He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ .
9 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 ’ .
10 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 . ’
11 He resumed it in 1954 and continued as editor until his death .
12 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 .
13 The Scotsman , when he bought it in 1954 , was the first significant British daily ( Fleet Street included ) to go into international ownership .
14 He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th .
15 He snapped it in two — gave me a leer — and was gone , as suddenly as he had arrived .
16 He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it .
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