Example sentences of "he [verb] and [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes and breaks it in half when his lost . |
| 2 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 3 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |
| 4 | She shook her head , lifting her coat down from the peg , her heart beating double time as he came and took it from her to slide it smoothly up her arms . |
| 5 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 6 | he laughed and let it by untouched . |
| 7 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 8 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 9 | But he , he give him three thousand in readies and he went and wrapped it round a blooming tree on top of the Molton Road ! |
| 10 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks , Rose , ’ he said and placed it on top of the radio . |
| 12 | ‘ It was hers , ’ he said and hurled it into the pool . |
| 13 | It can be argued that it is a citizen 's right to be free to collect information about whatever and whoever he likes and to do it in any way which is not intrusive or injurious . |
| 14 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |
| 15 | Iago not only knows no altruism in himself , he blocks and destroys it in others : |