Example sentences of "he [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet soon the glutinous entity was withdrawing far from his head , allowing him to see it squeezing portion by portion back into the ventilation system . |
| 2 | He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light . |
| 3 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 4 | What can be deduced from this is that religion as he understands it involves belief in an ordered moral government of the whole universe and in the fact that religious and ethical ideals should inform all our actions . |
| 5 | The hound grunted with pain and he let it fall limp at his feet , a small dark trickle of blood flowing from one nostril . |
| 6 | And though his contract has been renegotiated , he wants it declared void and unenforceable . |
| 7 | He says it puts heart into her people , because it confirms their belief that her cause has wide support in the world today . |
| 8 | He says it leaves prosecutors no alternative but to resort to methods such as plea bargaining , where defendents plead guilty in exchange for shorter sentences . |
| 9 | He says it brings tears to your eyes to see the children having such fun . |
| 10 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 11 | He realises it needs attention if he is to complete a full set of major titles by winning the world crown in Stuttgart in August . |
| 12 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 13 | Noah 's statement and the manner in which he delivered it took Arnold Peck aback , but he said haughtily , ‘ I 've never heard of you , sir . ’ |
| 14 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 15 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 16 | He thought it meant breasts . |
| 17 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
| 18 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 19 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 20 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 21 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 22 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 23 | He had it named St George 's Church and also had it built in the centre of the village in impeccable Norman style with nave , transepts , chancel , altar , choir stalls , altar rails and tower . |
| 24 | He said it lacked poetry . |
| 25 | He said it contained engine components . |
| 26 | The way he said it made Sally feel like a parcel for delivery . |
| 27 | Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right . |
| 28 | , Dr David Wheeler , a scientist working on a Department of the Environment project on the quality of bathing water , has resigned because he believes it lacks credibility . |
| 29 | He believes it funds drug dealing and he wants the Home Office to take it seriously . |