Example sentences of "he [vb past] it and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stole a chicken from work , and I watched as he stuffed it and sewed it up with needle and thread in his girlfriend 's flat , frowning with ponderous alcoholic severity . |
| 2 | He glanced in the mirror as he passed it and straightened his glasses . |
| 3 | When David proudly took the letter to him , he scanned it and threw it aside . |
| 4 | Sickness rose in Nuadu , but he fought it and forced himself to watch . |
| 5 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 6 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 7 | But he did much more than write : he drew it and painted it . |
| 8 | He caught it and pulled himself up . |
| 9 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 10 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 11 | He undid it and drew it off . |
| 12 | He dropped it and pushed it away with his foot . |
| 13 | He turned it and set it down again . |
| 14 | He trapped it and showed his hand : now there were four . |
| 15 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |
| 16 | tortoise thing with a lid on then he opened it and filled it with |
| 17 | He opened it and plunged his hand in . |
| 18 | He already had my passport in front of him , and he opened it and asked me my name , age , parents ’ names and a lot of other routine questions . |
| 19 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 20 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 21 | Instead of shaking it , however , he grabbed it and pulled her out into the street . |
| 22 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 23 | He felt it and meant it . |
| 24 | When he heard her last remark he understood it and knew he had to get rid of her quickly . |
| 25 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 26 | He unfolded it and handed it to George . |
| 27 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 28 | ‘ He stole it and hid it somewhere . |