Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 9 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So seven weeks he said it was . |
| 13 | One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything . |
| 14 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 15 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 16 | I said you should have brought back ninety five pounds he said it 's ten pounds extra . |
| 17 | And one of the ways he does it is through the World Pooh sticks championships he devised and now holds every year . |
| 18 | And yet was it a fact , was it the truth , or was it merely a psychological speculation which in certain moods he found it interesting to contemplate ? |
| 19 | Tearing a piece of beef off the cut with his fingers he popped it in his mouth and swallowed greedily . |
| 20 | There 's clearly a problem , any ward councillor who brings out t that sort of thing which is non non-trivial to this council er for the reasons he has it seems to me deserves er to be supported unless there 's a very strong case against it and I do n't worth considering and that 's what I shall vote.worth co you do n't . |
| 21 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 22 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 23 | And in his waking times he knows it . ’ |
| 24 | Within fifteen minutes he spotted it again in his rearview mirror , lurking behind a large French container lorry . |
| 25 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 26 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 27 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 28 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 29 | Following its flight in the binoculars he saw it make a sweep over a rough piece of land shunned by the golf course architect , a triangle of unsuitable terrain enclosed by the 2nd , 9th and 17th holes . |
| 30 | the child may need help with -ed : on both occasions he replaced it with -t ( cf. fatet ) . |