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Example sentences of "he [verb] it [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’
2	He made it a statement rather than a question .
3	For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied .
4	He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court .
5	" Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin .
6	He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself .
7	In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him .
8	He made it a statement .
9	By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
10	Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days .
11	I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority .
12	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
13	As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure .
14	But he found it a very happy time .
15	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 .
16	Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue .
17	He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours .
18	But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames .
19	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 .
20	He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly .
21	If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success .
22	and er he said he used it every day he said oh er , now I know the value I shall have to tell my bridge pals
23	The phrase gave him satisfaction ; he used it a lot .
24	From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises .
25	He says it every time I fall asleep on settee .
26	Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late .
27	He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door .
28	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 .
29	He says he uses it every week and has n't had any problems .
30	When the Chilaw kachcheri queried a sale voucher counterfoil submitted by a headman , it was explained that the seller had branded the animal with his grandfather 's name , Nicholas , because he believed it a lucky name in cattle breeding .