Example sentences of "it [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th . |
| 2 | It irritates him beyond measure that she is nearly always right about everything . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into . |
| 4 | But it got him in the end . |
| 5 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 6 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 7 | When the National Executive expelled Cripps for his part in the " United Peace Alliance " , it attacked him for his influence in the League . |
| 8 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |
| 9 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 10 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 11 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 12 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 13 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 14 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 15 | Danby 's fall in 1679 may have deprived Dering of a political ally and patron , but it provided him with his most prestigious government position . |
| 16 | It served a dual purpose ; it provided him with lots of material for the classroom and enabled him to discuss his ideas with colleagues from a wide variety of schools . |
| 17 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 18 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 19 | It gratified him to be seen in her company . |
| 20 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 22 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 23 | Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . |
| 24 | This was a perpetual source of vexation to Mahmoud and his efforts to do something about it drove him towards reform at the political level — he was a member of the Nationalist Party — and perfectionism in his daily work . |
| 25 | It drove him in 1950 to establish a committee to help people in need . |
| 26 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 27 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 28 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 29 | He thought about the Dysons ' solid , regular married life , and it filled him with nostalgia . |
| 30 | Three times the court adjourned , and finally , without allowing him to speak further , it condemned him to death for treason against the people . |