Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 2 | Every small advance allows him to see it more clearly , more accurately , more affordably . |
| 3 | All his thing about secrecy and mystery — I would n't expect him to risk it again . ’ |
| 4 | In keeping with their true natures , some look out for a dealer who has passed it , and beg him to sit it again , for them . |
| 5 | She could not let him read it now , in the middle of the preparations . |
| 6 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Fagin told him to drink it fast . |
| 8 | Once , when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again . |
| 9 | Let him do it else there 'll be there 'll be eruptions . |
| 10 | We 've seen him do it before , but he does n't , does n't say a word . |
| 11 | Colonel Blair knows nothing of it yet , and it would be better , I think , for him to hear it first-hand from you . " |
| 12 | Eva had n't let him see it before ; she just bought it quickly when we sold the house in Beckenham and had to get out . |
| 13 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 14 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
| 15 | It was such a non-threatening touch that she allowed him to leave it there . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's quite good at that , though I do n't expect him to do it again ! ’ |
| 17 | The first one was so quick they had to get him to do it again ! |
| 18 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 19 | Well you got to give it back some time , may as well get him to do it tomorrow when he 's in . |
| 20 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ Bad for him to do it only one way , ’ she said . |
| 22 | During the second interval Geoffrey apologised , giving the excuse that one of the battens of the hollow trees had worked itself loose and that at the last moment Bunny had required him to fix it more securely into its brace . |
| 23 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
| 24 | Ooh I do n't , tell him to keep it there then , and I do n't believe him anyway . |
| 25 | I can hear him saying it now as only he could , turning my name into an insult . ’ |
| 26 | But the hair on the back of her neck prickled to hear him saying it so calmly . |
| 27 | I want him to hold it forever . |
| 28 | I 'd let him leave it as soon as possible |
| 29 | Either he had n't started or whoever killed him took it away . |
| 30 | ‘ I want him to get it tomorrow without fail . ’ |