Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let his hand rest on it , and summed up all his prayers for guidance and enlightenment into the touch of his fingers , and suddenly he was resolved to open it . |
| 2 | Perhaps he was going to punch it straight back at the batsman . |
| 3 | Now he is said to regret it because it has inflamed the Thatcherites . |
| 4 | Last summer was in Peter 's mind too , he had seen it as a failure , here he was going to put it right , he was enjoying the fear , he was Jamie dogfighting in the sky , he was very calm , very cold . |
| 5 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |