Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 2 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 3 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 4 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 5 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |