Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 5 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 6 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 7 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 12 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 15 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 16 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 17 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 18 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 19 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 20 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 23 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 24 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 25 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 29 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 30 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |