Example sentences of "he [verb] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 2 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 3 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 4 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 5 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 6 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 7 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 8 | When he came to , the doctor who performed it admitted to Dustin that he might have choked to death had he undergone it the night before . |
| 9 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 10 | When he touched it the doors swung open instantly and with a disconcerting noiselessness . |
| 11 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 12 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 13 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 14 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 15 | He calls it the ‘ varsity spirit . |
| 16 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 17 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 18 | She was a shrewd lady and not over-generous with praise , so , when it came , he appreciated it the more . |
| 19 | He called it the ‘ English binge ’ . |
| 20 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 21 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 22 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 23 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 24 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 25 | He called it the Arnold Register , after American general Hap Arnold , and set about tracking down thousands of people , now scattered all round the world . |
| 26 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 27 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 28 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 29 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 30 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |