Example sentences of "he [verb] it in [adj] " 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 used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 5 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 6 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 7 | It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 10 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 15 | he brought it in this morning |
| 16 | Tithonus asked for immortality but he expresses it in such a way that one feels sad for him . |
| 17 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 20 | If one of his drawings went wrong , he tore it in half with an angry gesture . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 23 | He resumed it in 1954 and continued as editor until his death . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Scotsman , when he bought it in 1954 , was the first significant British daily ( Fleet Street included ) to go into international ownership . |
| 26 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 27 | Well he does it in such a knack |
| 28 | He does it in many different ways . |
| 29 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 30 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |