Example sentences of "he [vb past] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 2 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 3 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 4 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 5 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 6 | When he touched it the doors swung open instantly and with a disconcerting noiselessness . |
| 7 | She was a shrewd lady and not over-generous with praise , so , when it came , he appreciated it the more . |
| 8 | He called it the ‘ English binge ’ . |
| 9 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 10 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 11 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 12 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 13 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 14 | He called it the Arnold Register , after American general Hap Arnold , and set about tracking down thousands of people , now scattered all round the world . |
| 15 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 16 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 17 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 18 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 19 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 20 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 21 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 22 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 23 | He gave it the significance of a personal belief and turning lazily in his chair to inform Charles with more than a trace of arrogance , ‘ Old Guards ’ proverb . ’ |
| 24 | He gave it the name Shahjehanabad — that is to say , ‘ Built by Shah Jehan ’ . |
| 25 | He gave it the blood of his face it grew eager |
| 26 | He gave it the strength of his spine it ate everything |
| 27 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 28 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 29 | Well no he said it the other day did n't he ? |
| 30 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |