Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 2 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 3 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 4 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 5 | From this awareness of individuation or , to use the Scotist term , haecceitas , came Hopkins 's overriding concern with ‘ inscape ’ in every aspect of the created world : the obsession with the ‘ selfhood ’ of every object or being , at the same time that he perceived behind it the generically divine . |
| 6 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |
| 7 | Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ . |
| 8 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 9 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 10 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |