Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 2 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 3 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 4 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 5 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 6 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 7 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 8 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 9 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 10 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 11 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 12 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 13 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 14 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 15 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |
| 16 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 17 | He passed it over the table , and courteously got up to give Catherine a second copy . |
| 18 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 19 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 20 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 27 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 28 | He got it on the market . |
| 29 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |