Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | Going to a built-in wardrobe he opened it and flicked through the many articles of clothing hanging there . |
| 32 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 33 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 34 | When he 's in a jolly mood he blames it on their potty training . |
| 35 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 36 | Agnew Speedy coming in Ormanroyd then got in his way rather but it comes still to Thomson he lays it off to Lewis and the cross is too hard . |
| 37 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 38 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 39 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
| 40 | Leaning across the girl he placed it firmly against the pimp 's right temple . |
| 41 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 42 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 45 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 46 | An appalling clearance by Knight presented Thomas with the chance , but it still needed to be capitalised on and he launched a tremendous , looping shot which the Rovers ' supporters behind the goal knew was on target from the moment he hit it . |
| 47 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 48 | And it was Alec that was driving and Will Will , he said mind where your about Alec , you 'll er you 'll soon be in a ditch but good 's sake he said it 's not me So they were both |
| 49 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 50 | Li Peng 's sharp criticism of the political reform package he called it ‘ perfidious ’ was greeted by loud applause from the 3,000 delegates . |
| 51 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 52 | When Neville Smith unexpectedly got a copy of the catalogue through the post he thought it was just another piece of junk mail . |
| 53 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 54 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 55 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 56 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 57 | As he walked back up Fleet Street he thought it would be very satisfying to get even with Wickham one day . |
| 58 | So seven weeks he said it was . |
| 59 | When he returned to his camp in the evening he found it deserted : while he had been feasting , Tafari 's agents had persuaded his troops to return home . |
| 60 | Before leaving the privy he disinfected it with pine fluid . |