Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E 's overworked it . |
| 2 | In 1986 , it was provided that an applicant should not be treated as having accommodation unless it was such that it would be reasonable for him to continue to occupy it . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age . |
| 4 | If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend . |
| 5 | Also I do n't want him to try to have it off with someone else . |
| 6 | But I kept hearing him like scrape it during the concert . |
| 7 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 8 | He carried an axe in order to be able to smash down illegal obstacles , but there is no mention of him having to use it in 1983 . |
| 9 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 10 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 11 | Even though she scared him , a part of him had to admit it . |
| 12 | Alternatively , writers might approach the judge before whom the apology is to be made , and ask him to refuse to sanction it because of the reflection which it would cast on their reputations . |
| 13 | Why did n't he want to remember it ? |
| 14 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 15 | On the other hand , he had the last word whenever he cared to have it , not just on foreign or defence policy but on any aspect of policy . |
| 16 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |
| 17 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 18 | He agreed to sell it to me . ’ |
| 19 | He agreed to do it because it flattered his ego . |
| 20 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 21 | But the foundation asked him again , and he agreed to complete it . |
| 22 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 23 | Your Mum 's got a kick-start on your Dad 's cock so he goes rub it up babe ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! |
| 24 | She goes though , he 's not having a party so , he 's invited thirty-five kids and , and they 're all bringing their own friends , there 's not gon na be enough room , he goes forget it then , I wo n't have the party . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 27 | and he sits lifts it , gets up on the settee and cuddles that until he goes to sleep . |
| 28 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 29 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 30 | Although he fought to control it , his voice trembled , and the knuckles of the hands which clutched the chair at whose back he stood were huge , the skin stretched tautly across them . |