Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah was in a little tumble job there but I I honestly do n't think he if he caught him it was quite accidental . |
| 2 | Er the Doctor provided the medicine and if he visited you it was seven and sixpence each visit , and if you went to his surgery , I think it was four an either four and six , or three and six . |
| 3 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 4 | He told her it was like the moment when the tide stops coming in and starts going out again . |
| 5 | He told her it was only for three weeks , by which time the mortgage would be through . |
| 6 | He told her it had not been easy to get a word in . |
| 7 | The doctor had been he 's seen her and he told her it 's a hormone deficiency , nothing to what she done to her hair |
| 8 | He told him it was turpentine . |
| 9 | And last night , instead of trying to comfort him for his loss , he told him it was God 's vengeance upon him . |
| 10 | Macari threw the corroding garment down in full view of the club 's directors he told them it reflected the state of their club . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me it was all fixed up . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 13 | ‘ He told me it would be easier to get to the underground railway from the side street . |
| 14 | ‘ I was shocked but he told me it was inevitable . |
| 15 | He told me it was important for me to understand he was a very big name in his own town . |
| 16 | He told me it was scandalous that Mills had gone unpunished . |
| 17 | That was when he told me it was often disconnected . |
| 18 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He told me it had been overlooked , I 'm sure he did ! ’ |
| 20 | Ni Nigel mentioned , he told me it was erm er like four , five hundred in tt |
| 21 | He told me it was still there and that he 'd been told he 's got to write to them today and they 've got to get it taken off within twenty eight days . |
| 22 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 23 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 24 | We wanted to go inside the church on the hill but he told us it had to be kept locked because of vandals . |
| 25 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 26 | No , he told us it 's the rugby club . |
| 27 | It will all depend how long has he owed them it . |
| 28 | Clutching a handkerchief to his own face , he felt blood over his eye but he assured them it was superficial , and gave instructions which were followed to the letter . |
| 29 | The doctor said there were not likely to be others , and he assured her it did n't matter , so she must be all his family . |
| 30 | He assured me it would have very little , if any , effect . |