Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an exciting story and he told it well . |
| 2 | And Archie tied one of the ropes to the box of groceries and we pull it across ; and then we tie the other rope to the empty box and he pull it across empty ready to fill it up again . |
| 3 | It was his first real tragedy and he took it very badly . |
| 4 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 5 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 6 | It is a poem which uses plain , simple language and he holds it together using onomatopoeia and effective rhyme but you do not feel as if there is one definite clear-cut image or message in it . |
| 7 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 8 | It sprang into bright white light and he covered it with its glass globe . |
| 9 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 10 | Lewis er Jochim rather Laws wins it back now Webb Crosby making a good run and he releases it but it was well read by Greyson . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , he got a first-class lead and he followed it up , ’ protested Philip Kelly . |
| 12 | ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’ |
| 13 | He was drawn to such slow , mournful music and he carried it with him everywhere . |
| 14 | It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour . |
| 15 | The stick he was holding caught fire and he held it as it flared up , watching the flames draw near his hand , feeling the heat on the skin , then the pain . |
| 16 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 17 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 18 | The empty box was a convenient size and he filled it with essentials — and a few non-essentials . |
| 19 | I wondered , as Mum , Emily and Mrs Quigley got into the back of his brand new car and he thrust it out into the traffic . |
| 20 | conked out other day and he thought it were points , he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs ? |
| 21 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 22 | Yes yes and he 's such a nice man and he does it so willingly if he can . |
| 23 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 24 | She looked at him with silent aggression and he left it at that . |