Example sentences of "he [verb] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 2 | He thinks it nonsense . ’ |
| 3 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 4 | Just leave it there in front of him so that he can eat it if he wants it Charlotte |
| 5 | He pronounced it Mehico . |
| 6 | ( He pronounced it masster . ) |
| 7 | He pronounced it Cahamarca . |
| 8 | His second followed good work on the right wing by Kelly , he played it infield to Hodge , who passed it along the ground to forresters feet … in the same sort of position as white for the 2nd goal … except facing the touchline . |
| 9 | It shows you how thick this boy is , he wrote on his name , he spelt it R I E N . |
| 10 | Unless of course he turned it upside down … ! |
| 11 | Broken apart by force , the lid splintered , the box shed a handful of stones and a drift of dead leaves as he turned it upside down and shook it ruefully . |
| 12 | He turned it upside dawn and sat on it . |
| 13 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 14 | As he opened it Patrick Kelly walked inside . |
| 15 | As he opened it Schellenberg called , ‘ During the nineteen thirties Liam Devlin was one of the most notorious gunmen in the IRA . |
| 16 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 17 | He signed it Beachcomber . |
| 18 | He 's got it all worked out , he calls it Defence in Depth . |
| 19 | Robert 's took Wendy 's car and sold it , he pinched it Sunday afternoon |
| 20 | Well , he called it defence . |
| 21 | Jung suggested that there might be an acausal connecting principle linking everything in the universe at any one point in time : he called it synchronicity . |
| 22 | He called it mifepristone , its medical name . |
| 23 | He could see what was wrong — he called it slavery : |
| 24 | He called it Levittown . |
| 25 | In 1293 he called it Kingston-upon-Hull . |
| 26 | ( By then he was already very ill : he called it ulcers , but it was cancer . ) |
| 27 | He used to feed it moths cos they were gon na have a spider race and he called it Rhinoceros . |
| 28 | He called it vitamin 51B , which was unfortunate because proof of its vitamin status was never found and that raised the hackles of the regulatory authorities in the US . |
| 29 | He called it truth and justice . |
| 30 | He called it Boozebusters and the idea was that wives ( and more rarely , husbands ) who were fed up with their partner 's non-stop round of office parties would hire a Boozebuster squad to snatch the miscreant from the pub , or wine-bar or restaurant or even the office itself at a pre-arranged time . |