Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 2 | He had not attempted to draw , Harry was aware of that even in the heat of his attack , and it enraged him past measure and gave him strength beyond normal . |
| 3 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 4 | He thought about the Dysons ' solid , regular married life , and it filled him with nostalgia . |
| 5 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 6 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 7 | For if he was right , then this lull foreboded some new and less direct assault upon him , and it behoved him to be ready for it . |
| 8 | Although he controls other animals — horses and dogs — he is never able to catch the hart alive , and it escapes him in the moment of death . |
| 9 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 10 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 11 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |
| 12 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it got him in the end . |
| 15 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 16 | There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 19 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 20 | The 72 might have seemed boring but it put him in charge . |
| 21 | But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . |
| 22 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |