Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light .
2 He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years .
3 The hound grunted with pain and he let it fall limp at his feet , a small dark trickle of blood flowing from one nostril .
4 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 !
5 He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream .
9 He said it lacked poetry .
10 He said it contained engine components .
11 Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right .
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