Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He pronounced it Mehico . |
3 | ( He pronounced it masster . ) |
4 | He pronounced it Cahamarca . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It shows you how thick this boy is , he wrote on his name , he spelt it R I E N . |
7 | Unless of course he turned it upside down … ! |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He turned it upside dawn and sat on it . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | As he opened it Patrick Kelly walked inside . |
12 | As he opened it Schellenberg called , ‘ During the nineteen thirties Liam Devlin was one of the most notorious gunmen in the IRA . |
13 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
14 | He signed it Beachcomber . |
15 | Robert 's took Wendy 's car and sold it , he pinched it Sunday afternoon |
16 | Well , he called it defence . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He called it mifepristone , its medical name . |
19 | He could see what was wrong — he called it slavery : |
20 | He called it Levittown . |
21 | In 1293 he called it Kingston-upon-Hull . |
22 | ( By then he was already very ill : he called it ulcers , but it was cancer . ) |
23 | He used to feed it moths cos they were gon na have a spider race and he called it Rhinoceros . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He called it truth and justice . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
28 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
29 | He watched it head towards him . |
30 | He enthused about it to colleagues in Australia and later he took it Europe and the US . |