Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rummaged under the counter and produced a colour chart , and , shoving the display-case of cakes to one side he flattened it out so that everyone could see and comment as they saw fit . |
| 2 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 3 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 4 | Well according to Dennis he thinks it 's eight thousand . |
| 5 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 6 | Suggesting that ‘ the end product of basic research is an increase in knowledge ’ in applied research he suggested it was first a product , e.g. an antibiotic , an artificial hand , a drought-resistant variety of wheat ; then a process , e.g. for the manufacture of an antibiotic , or for removing nitrogen oxides from exhaust gas ; then a method of operation , e.g. to prevent collisions in the English Channel , to speed up the delivery of letters , or to give advice , sometimes in the discharge of a statutory obligation ( the emphasis is mine ) . |
| 7 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 8 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 9 | Even as the question formed in his mind he knew it was useless . |
| 10 | Now , as the thought came into his mind he spoke it aloud , and had he spoken like this to anyone else it would have been taken as an insult , for what he said was , ‘ It 's a pity you have n't had education , Mick . ’ |
| 11 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 12 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 13 | was as perfect as for any building that he ever saw erected ; and as for the light he thought it was rather overdone than otherwise . |
| 14 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 15 | So that ewes er , are , are , er , erm , protected by him , erm in Leicestershire he says it 's open countryside and he says I do n't lose that many by foxes , he says I 'm more , er er at unease with other things . |
| 16 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 17 | If he feeds me the data he uncovers it might put us ahead in the game before the battle opens . ’ |
| 18 | On April 23 Gorbachev declared the resolution to be in contravention of the USSR Constitution , and as USSR President he ordered it suspended . |
| 19 | But every time Marky opens his mouth he blows it . |
| 20 | I said yes why , they can nae do that mister he said it 'll affect all the sensors on the machines oh ah |
| 21 | So when he rehearsed the scene he based it on his experience at the chemist 's , an example of his always having to make contact with a real , lived emotion . |
| 22 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 23 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 24 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 25 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 26 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 27 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 28 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 29 | She held out her hand , and after a second he took it . |
| 30 | And he knew that this was the keyhole for his wondrous delicate key , and with a little sigh he put it in and waited for what should ensue . |