Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stuffed it hastily back , afraid someone had seen him reading it , and took ‘ To Mother Dear ’ and his two shillings up to the counter . |
| 32 | 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 ! ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Does not he think it right that all such pensioners should receive compensation when they have lost so much pension due to his complacency and reprehensible laxity ? |
| 35 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 36 | He points it upward , as if he means to blow a hole in the ceiling . |
| 37 | A landowner thus theoretically received the same amount for his land whether he sold it privately , to the Land Commission , or to another public authority . |
| 38 | He scanned it carefully looking for faults , but it has been well prepared . |
| 39 | Indeed , he met it head-on : first infuriating the powerful gun lobby by signing a law banning assault weapons , then reforming New Jersey 's nearly bankrupt car-insurance programme , then fighting to change an absurdly generous teachers ' pension plan . |
| 40 | 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 ? |
| 41 | If he drinks it now , today he wo n't have it tomorrow will he ? |
| 42 | He drinks it too quick . |
| 43 | He drinks it too quick Jonathan , as I said that ai n't the drink you should drink |
| 44 | No but he understands it quite well . |
| 45 | He asked it quietly but she felt a tensing of his body . |
| 46 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 47 | I saw him put it in his pocket , do n't know where he got it fucking act the eejit fucking walk about places in the town where he , nobody would stop them , they 'd stop me |
| 48 | And er , he , he got it so he 'd eat out of pocket , and exercise , you know , turn its head round and and in that side , you know . |
| 49 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 50 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 51 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 52 | Oh I must n't lose that , my grandson bought me that in Greece Cos I 'm a pipe smoker and er , but it 's not a Zippo , and he got it very cheap English you see , but I 've knackered him you see , because I , he thinks I 've still got that , but I , I , I bought a Zippo one , and it 's , it 's the hippo , the Zippo one that 's in there the other one was fucking useless , well , it lasted for a couple of months , a few months , but er |
| 53 | And that a lot better dog food , that er what he had and he woofs it all does n't he ? |
| 54 | The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 : |
| 60 | Nor did he fancy it greatly ; after some years away from Mrs Lorimer 's hotel and of looking after himself , eating exactly what he liked , it was hard to get used to her iron hand with a potato . |