Example sentences of "and he [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something sprang to the floor and he mashed it with a large flying-boot . |
| 2 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 3 | His cigarette burned his finger and he dropped it under a boot heel . |
| 4 | And he booked it over the phone , said Is it a standard flat ? which was a silly thing to ask cos to everybody who lives in a house , they 've a standard amount of furniture . |
| 5 | One name caught his eye and he programmed it into the computer . |
| 6 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 7 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 8 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 9 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 10 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 11 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 12 | He holds it in his mouth , he picks out a match and he strikes it on the box . |
| 13 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 14 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 15 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
| 16 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 17 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 18 | He was delivered of an ultimatum and he accepted it with a smile and good grace , although he went away cursing the interference and audacity of Fred 's young wife . |
| 19 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 20 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 22 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 23 | The blow to English arms was bitter , and he felt it as an insult to his own person . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 25 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 26 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 27 | And he thrust it into the jeep , as Shelley , rather puzzled by his ready agreement , shifted herself into the driving seat . |
| 28 | And he attacked it with a relish and enthusiasm which surprised even himself . |
| 29 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 30 | His approach , in its essentials , was formed by the early 1930s , and he extends it during the 1940s only in the direction of even greater pessimism : cultural ‘ totalitarianism ’ becomes absolute . |