Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 32 | He walked past it and turned the corner into Cromwell Road . |
| 33 | The receptionist at the hotel had given him a key to the front door and his mind was a chaotic mixture of emotions and thoughts as he walked past it towards the shore . |
| 34 | To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney . |
| 35 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 36 | He brushed past it and ran stooping round the corner of the L where the only light was fixed high up on a wall . |
| 37 | The fuchsia by the broken-down gate spilled a few dead blossoms as he brushed past it . |
| 38 | It can be arranged without his knowing a thing about it , and by the time he gets back it 'll be in full swing . ’ |
| 39 | Sure enough no sooner had he settled down it was Judy 's time to break into song . |
| 40 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 41 | He thought perhaps it was because her mind worked very fast , sometimes , and she was impatient with people who were n't keeping up . |
| 42 | He thought now it might have been a mistake . |
| 43 | He peers down it irritably , then with hope . |
| 44 | Though he 'd dimly thought it was sentiment that had driven him back here , he saw now it was not . |
| 45 | He could n't see the suitcase but he knew where it was , in the cavity between the walls and the roof . |
| 46 | He said he knew why it might have happened but would not elaborate . |
| 47 | He knew how it was done . |
| 48 | He knew how it had come to him , and now it was in his hand . |
| 49 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 50 | Martin decided to abseil from the peg but as he leant back it came out . |
| 51 | No point asking Anatoliy , the young ice-fisherman , by what traditional , weatherwise means he tells when it 's safe to go out on to the Dnepr . |
| 52 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 53 | ‘ He felt that if he went there it may have generated extra publicity through TV and radio interviews which might do some good in tracing the girls , ’ said Simon . |
| 54 | If the accused falls below that standard , it seems strange to inquire whether he knew that he fell below it . |
| 55 | There were , in fact , two to choose from , but it was Neckar Island that took Branson 's eye as he circled above it . |
| 56 | He circled above it , watching , in case there was anything he could do ; until a passing Albatros fell on him and hammered a dozen bullets into his engine . |
| 57 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |
| 58 | In spite of the heat , he understood why it was called sledging . |
| 59 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 60 | Happy Christmas ! ’ he growled down it . |