Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he ca n't get the note out of his pocket and his trousers are all stuck to his bum , and he ca n't get them out and he 's digging it looks like he 's digging out his pants he 's going he pulls it out and takes the envelope off nearly and the waves are coming at him and he goes to read it and the wind blows it away . |
| 2 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 3 | Yet there is always the tension between the open , say American , way he has tackled it and in which he talks about it , and the English oyster his knife is trying to open . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | Easier to imagine Sisyphus looking forward to the cigarette which will make his lungs heave under the effort of work and which , when he has finished it and tossed away the butt , will add to the rubbish below . |
| 6 | Then in the June issue reader Roger James says he has used it and it caused the rubber seals to swell and advise we check that rubber seals are compatible with silicon fluid . |
| 7 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 8 | He had to you know , he 'd , he 'd to leave it and consult with colleagues or whatever . |
| 9 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 10 | He 'd expected it and just shrugged his shoulders and sat down on the stool . |
| 11 | That 's where he keeps biting it and scratching it . |
| 12 | And he keeps pressing it and you , can nae hear him . |
| 13 | Yeah I know and he started munching it and he 's made it all soggy . |
| 14 | And he went to kick it and he just went crack . |
| 15 | He went to answer it and the next thing he knew he was being attacked by a group of men . |
| 16 | Nearly 12 hours later , he did sink it and then made a four at the 15th to keep in touch with Parry . |
| 17 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 18 | It was the road was still there he had to do it and they were put there by the government . |
| 19 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 20 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 21 | Somehow he had acquired it and when the need arose he would use it . |
| 22 | He picked the hambone off the rock where he had put it and held it out to Michael . |
| 23 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 24 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 25 | Afterwards she thought that perhaps only her father had really enjoyed her wedding , and , as he had engineered it and paid for it , then perhaps that was his reward . |
| 26 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 27 | He had rested it and was reserving himself to defend the K2 10km title . |
| 28 | He had abandoned it and taken the flowers to speak for themselves at her bedside , but she did not hear them . |
| 29 | The 13-goal marksman 's chances of being fit have improved since he started the treatment and his manager Ron Atkinson said : ‘ If he does make it and this machine has done the trick I 'll gladly pay out Pounds 25,000 myself to buy one . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |