Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 32 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 33 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 34 | He sold it in no time — at the price he originally wanted . |
| 35 | It was a defiant challenge , and he met it with a frown . |
| 36 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 37 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 38 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 39 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 40 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 41 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 42 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 43 | He got it on the market . |
| 44 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 45 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 46 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 47 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |
| 48 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 49 | He emptied it into the bath , and a cloud of steam rose . |
| 50 | He levelled it at the gunman then let his hand drop to his side . |
| 51 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 52 | He tried it with a pig but the pig just pissed everywhere , he was n't having it . ’ |
| 53 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 54 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 55 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 56 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 57 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 58 | ‘ He found it on a table in my father 's chamber , ’ she announced . |
| 59 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 60 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |