Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 2 | One of my colleagues , John Savage , put it forcibly when he said in the programme that pure road racing — that is racing on public roads — was at the crossroads because of lack of numbers and I 'm inclined to agree with him . |
| 3 | And sometimes that means sending a drawing out getting a contractor to price for it rather than him doing it , er using standard books and goodness knows else like Sponds . |
| 4 | The autocratic old Frenchman came out of it badly and he did not like it . |
| 5 | As Wright challenged the goalkeeper for the dropped ball , however , Nelson recovered to kick it clear as he fell to the ground . |
| 6 | We did it right after he died . |
| 7 | Guha surely had it right when he likened Littlewoods to a giant tanker that takes ages to change direction . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to break it gently that he was fictitious , but I do n't think it always sinks in . |
| 9 | How could he make sense of it all unless he could first solve the riddle of himself ? |
| 10 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
| 11 | My brother , your father , will have all my money and my house after my death , and you will have it all when he dies . |
| 12 | Kevin Phillips ' snarl says it all as he leads the Neath tribe 's celebrations after winning the 1990 Schweppes Cup Final . |
| 13 | The granite control he exerted over his features said it all as he clipped the keys to his own ring . |
| 14 | He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt . |
| 15 | But he can bridge it only if he has broad lines of policy clear in his head ; if , knowing his own mind , he drives his authority down through the departments ; and if he is prepared to understand that the fruits of his efforts may appear long after the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton , gourmand and ground-breaker . |
| 16 | It the statement is taken in this way , a hearer should assent to it only if he believes that I have the belief . |
| 17 | No matter bow close you are to your home , never lead a suspicious person to it so that he can see you enter an empty house/ flat alone . |
| 18 | He engineered it so that he was standing head and shoulders above his rivals when they filed past to shake his hand and offer their condolences . |
| 19 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 20 | He hesitated , trying to divine his father 's intent in asking it so that he could formulate the appropriate answer . |
| 21 | He pulled a wooden chair away from the table and brought it so that he could sit opposite to her . |
| 22 | but , but he said he paid the way she must have worked it so that he |
| 23 | He 's putting the flues on and he has n't come down to check it so if he 's down here I 'm gon na bloody tell him . |
| 24 | Tina grabbed his arm and held on to it fiercely as he stared back into Mrs Cramp 's hard little boot-button eyes . |
| 25 | Erm and then what he did was , he they went through it together and he showed her what to do and she followed him and and as she did things right he praised her and gave her feedback and said she 'd done it correctly and then then when there were things did n't understand she questioned him and then he clarified her . |
| 26 | I ca n't claim it is original because I stole the idea from Dan Dailey in Mother Wore Tights , although it is possible I do it better than him now . |
| 27 | I mean , cos you 've got ta do it better than him . |
| 28 | and they do it electrically or you can do it manually and he 's turned them round manually and now the water 's coming out normal put them back to how they were |
| 29 | A FRENCH driver took it literally when he asked for directions and was told to ‘ go straight over the roundabout ’ . |
| 30 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |