Example sentences of "he [vb -s] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Receiving briefings from him makes it even more like old times , ’ says a Thatcher adviser . |
| 2 | ‘ You Americans always go for the corny ones , ’ he says , but he plays it just the same , and he delivers a good strong solo at that . |
| 3 | RUBBER-faced funnyman Rowan Atkinson has admitted he plays it strictly for cash . |
| 4 | Mind you , he plays it more than me ! |
| 5 | As he adds detail he records it simply to his own satisfaction and in a form adequate to his own purposes . |
| 6 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 7 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 8 | He points it upward , as if he means to blow a hole in the ceiling . |
| 9 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 10 | If he drinks it now , today he wo n't have it tomorrow will he ? |
| 11 | He drinks it too quick . |
| 12 | He drinks it too quick Jonathan , as I said that ai n't the drink you should drink |
| 13 | No but he understands it quite well . |
| 14 | And that a lot better dog food , that er what he had and he woofs it all does n't he ? |
| 15 | He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future . |
| 16 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 17 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 18 | He thinks it very important , though , to try to force players to use the same ball , arguing that there would be mayhem on the touchline were that provision not enforced . |
| 19 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 20 | We get turned and cant pass back to Lukic unless its VERY safe , and even then he kicks it straight out of play so relieving the pressure on the opposition AND putting pressure on us . |
| 21 | He holds it away from himself as if it is a mirror , or something equally precious . |
| 22 | It is a poem which uses plain , simple language and he holds it together using onomatopoeia and effective rhyme but you do not feel as if there is one definite clear-cut image or message in it . |
| 23 | When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right . |
| 24 | He has it firmly in his head that this whole fracas is on my account , and nothing I can say will sway him . |
| 25 | His Elizabethan master had needed money intermittently , but he needs it nearly every day , certainly every week of the year . |
| 26 | ‘ God knows , he needs it now . ’ |
| 27 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 28 | Central defenders have done a good job today for Leicester of course I 've put the curse on him saying that he knocks it straight out of play but er Gary Mills who 's missed half a dozen games through injury is going to come on now and he 's going to take the place of Neil Lewis . |
| 29 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 30 | He wants it badly . |