Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 2 | He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities . |
| 3 | He made it whistle and crack threateningly , only to wind harmlessly around a girl 's thigh or waist . |
| 4 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 5 | But the British remain fond of the welfare state ; they might , in the end , thank him if he made it work more fairly . |
| 6 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 7 | He made it sound like a fortune , this extra $1.25 , it was only because he liked Jed so much , he did n't know what had come over him , maybe he had a fever , an extra $1.25 , it was madness . |
| 8 | he made it sound as if this was a perfectly sound reason for his dangerous and criminal behaviour . |
| 9 | Crowing over it to Theo he made it sound like a breakthrough . |
| 10 | He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I did n't like to ask why . |
| 11 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 12 | Somehow he made it sound like a valid excuse . |
| 13 | He made it sound as though it was the most wonderful thing in the world . |
| 14 | He made it sound like bad TV entertainment . |
| 15 | He made it sound almost insulting . |
| 16 | He made it sound as if there would never be any escape . |
| 17 | He made it sound so simple , Lindsey found herself thinking , as finally they moved away from the bed . |
| 18 | He made it sound as if she was indeed gifted with something indefinable . |
| 19 | But not as he made it sound . |
| 20 | He made it sound simple , but she was no fool . |
| 21 | He made it sound as though he would be doing the region a favour , not erecting a gaudy , intrusive , unaesthetic and , in her opinion , entirely superfluous tourist attraction ! |
| 22 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 23 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 24 | He took her body and he made it come alive . |
| 25 | It was n't very good shooting , but the second time he made it stick . |
| 26 | Burton soared : he made it look effortless , and he put no one down in the process . |
| 27 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 28 | He made it seem important and Special . |
| 29 | He made it seem an aeon . |
| 30 | He made it seem easy — that was different : that was the pride of the macho Valley rugby player . |