Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I kept hearing him like scrape it during the concert . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He agreed to sell it to me . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 9 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 10 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 14 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 15 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 16 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 17 | He tried to explain it to her , but she did n't know what he was talking about . |
| 18 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 19 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 20 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 21 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 22 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 23 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 24 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 25 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 26 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 27 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 28 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 29 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 30 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |