Example sentences of "he [verb] it [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again . |
2 | Instead , he allows it to be assumed that the council 's plans for the coronation of Edward V were in line with the king 's sagax dispositio as embodied in the codicils to his will . |
3 | Instead , he allows it to be assumed that the council 's plans for the coronation of Edward V were in line with the king 's sagax dispositio as embodied in the codicils to his will . |
4 | It was the attempt to restore the appearance of Gaitskellite centrality that produced Mr Kinnock 's revolution and the packaging operation to which he allowed it to be subjected , and his failure , even so , to conceal the Labour Party 's true character which produced disaster last Thursday . |
5 | The bishop of Tours relates that when the emperor saw a flagstone engraved with a cross he ordered it to be raised . |
6 | Some took it as a satire on Minton 's sex life and the tutor Colin Hayes was so angered by it he ordered it to be torn off the wall . |
7 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
8 | This apartment will be available for use by Lord Rothschild and his family , but he wishes it to be shown to visitors at other times . |
9 | This , he wished it to be understood , was a duty to God incumbent on him personally , one that he couched in the words of the Confiteor : ‘ And I pray to God that you will not stop because of what I have done or what I have failed to do . ’ |
10 | He wanted it to be called the Chemical Engineering Society but this proved to be too avant-garde , and a great opportunity to be first was lost . |