Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station which persuaded him to make a comeback says it ca n't believe its luck . |
| 2 | He made a detour to see it . |
| 3 | As we have said , this is a non-linguistic conceptual representation of what the speaker wants to convey in a sentence — the idea , in our example , that there was a boy , a girl and a flower , that the boy hit the girl , and that he used a flower to do it . |
| 4 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 5 | mean to say he wants a break does it ? |
| 6 | Why , now her end was so imminent , did he feel a desire to avert it ? |
| 7 | He spent a fortune doing it up and then his girlfriend bolted and now he wants to sell . |
| 8 | panicked by the snow which he had n't been expecting , he threw everything over and he had a job finding it all on the other side . |
| 9 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |