Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He produced it by heating red mercuric oxide with a 12 inch diameter burning glass . |
| 2 | He produced it by burning at high temperatures finely pulverized lime with clay in certain proportions , and grinding the product . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he found it worth enquiring , as Presidents of the BAAS were wont to do , whether ‘ sufficient facilities for education in science exist or are in progress in our country ; and whether Government or other important bodies provide sufficient encouragement and reward for its prosecution ’ . |
| 4 | Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse . |
| 5 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 6 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 7 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 8 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 9 | As soon as he had any money he spent it on going to Central America or Thailand by the cheapest possible means to look at some new underground . |
| 10 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 11 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 12 | He took it with trembling hands . |
| 13 | It was said that he learned it by practicing shadowboxing to popular tunes that ran exactly three minutes on the gramophone . |
| 14 | He did it without pushing and shoving but with competent authority . |
| 15 | What 's more , he did it without getting his feet wet . |
| 16 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 17 | He did it by suggesting the nervous system as an intermediary . |
| 18 | He did it by counterposing the need for regard to the greater entity of the Conservative Party . |
| 19 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 20 | A constable brought his coffee and he drank it without noticing . |
| 21 | It will be shown in a later chapter that there seems to be no evidence to indicate that he held that post before holding the kazaskerlik , while there is positive evidence that he held it after holding the kazaskerlik . |