Example sentences of "he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 2 | When he had , he made it simply and plainly . |
| 3 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 4 | He made it plain , quite quickly , that he was poised to adore Anna . |
| 5 | " He made it plain enough , " I said . |
| 6 | It seemed absurd , everything ordinary did , but he made it anyway . |
| 7 | He made it hesitantly . |
| 8 | He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again . |
| 9 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 10 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches . |
| 12 | I watched a man working on a special cookery book for a mother who is both blind and diabetic ; he made it so obvious that he valued the opportunity to make some reparation that I wonder whether more opportunities like this could not be created . |
| 13 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 14 | He made it very clear he would like to kill police officers . |
| 15 | He made it very clear . |
| 16 | But I know that he made it very hard for Sheila . |
| 17 | It seemed an odd remark but he made it quite amiably and Carrie 's immediate reaction was one of relief : at least he was n't angry with her ! |
| 18 | He made it quite clear that he could see no other way out of the situation . |
| 19 | He made it quite clear , I remember , that he wanted no references at all to his real name , Gerry Dorsey . |
| 20 | ‘ I said it was terrible , to ruin one of Lehar 's most wonderful love songs like that , and Ingrid , he made it quite plain that if I did n't fall in with Therese 's wishes — exactly — I would be thrown out of the company . ’ |
| 21 | The comment had some truth in it , in that the heroine did indeed have an equine cast of feature , but he made it too often , and with too little variation ; however , she was willing to forgive him , in view of his evident tolerance of her own social errors , such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream . |
| 22 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman seems to be totally ignorant of and unable to adjust to President Yeltsin 's announcement in which he made it absolutely clear that our determination to maintain a minimum deterrent is no obstruction to the determination that he and President Bush have to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the super-powers . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | RUBBER-faced funnyman Rowan Atkinson has admitted he plays it strictly for cash . |
| 26 | Mind you , he plays it more than me ! |
| 27 | I do n't know if he realised it either , but the Danuese would not have taken kindly to having their programme wiped off the air-waves midway through . |
| 28 | Why does he want it too ? ’ |
| 29 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 30 | As he adds detail he records it simply to his own satisfaction and in a form adequate to his own purposes . |