Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 2 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 3 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 4 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 5 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 6 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 7 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 8 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 9 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 10 | In the Psalms of David Smart had his pattern laid out for him , even if he chose to embroider it a little . |
| 11 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 12 | Only he had to do it every day . |
| 13 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 14 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 15 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 16 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 17 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 18 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 19 | But though everyone was near dead of curiosity , he had kept it a secret what he was planning . |
| 20 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 21 | He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car . |
| 22 | He had used it a lot in Seville . |
| 23 | If he was going to interrupt , he had left it a little late . |
| 24 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 25 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 26 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 27 | He hoped to make it a fitting swan-song . |
| 28 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |