Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't he want to remember it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 6 | He agreed to sell it to me . ’ |
| 7 | He agreed to do it because it flattered his ego . |
| 8 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 9 | But the foundation asked him again , and he agreed to complete it . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 15 | and he sits lifts it , gets up on the settee and cuddles that until he goes to sleep . |
| 16 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 17 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He fought to hold it down , getting up and pacing about , counting strides aloud in the English tongue , forcing himself to observe minutely every crack and cobweb , every light pattern and shadow texture over the rough brick walls and polished leather of bridles and saddles , until he 'd mastered the terrible memory . |
| 20 | Could not believe he expected to get it through without having a formal appraisal system . |
| 21 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 22 | He asked to buy it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When the youth fell overboard from the boat Boy Peter , one of two others on board threw a liferaft towards him but he failed to reach it . |
| 25 | And the court was told that the victim 's ear could have been saved — but he failed to take it with him to the hospital . |
| 26 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 27 | Earlier , Mr Kydd said Timex had warned 18 months ago , when Mr Hall was appointed , that the plant faced closure if he failed turn it round . |
| 28 | The company warned 18 months ago , when Mr Hall was appointed , that the plant faced closure if he failed turn it round . |
| 29 | The press had advance copies of the speech in which he was to defend Marshall , so that his climb-down was plain for all to see when he failed to deliver it . |
| 30 | There was a stubbornness in him which would not let this Honourable Colonel in ; and he failed to understand it . |