Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 4 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 5 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 6 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 7 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 10 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 14 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 15 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | He was most terribly afraid of the ferret , but he loved it with all his heart . |
| 18 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 19 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 20 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 21 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 22 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 23 | he brought it in this morning |
| 24 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 25 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 26 | If one of his drawings went wrong , he tore it in half with an angry gesture . |
| 27 | He bought it for that erm er her |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , he liked it like that . |
| 30 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |