Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Owner Dave Vernon has lately replaced it with a rare late-sixties single-tailed Mooney M-10 Cadet version ( right ) which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami . |
2 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |
3 | Dan Cruickshank bought a nightmare on Elder Street ten years ago an has lovingly restored it to a dream . |
4 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
5 | The Labour party has never chosen it as a subject . |
6 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
7 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
8 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
9 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
10 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
11 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
12 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
13 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
14 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
15 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
16 | If you 've just bought it from a shop and you 've had it years |
17 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
18 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
19 | and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice . |
20 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
21 | He had n't meant it as a rebuke , but Nell flinched . |
22 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
23 | I 've even seen it on a Finnish bus-shelter . |
24 | They 've even got it in a book . |
25 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
26 | Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax . |
27 | I 've never seen it on a wall in a real house before . |
28 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
29 | I 've never used it as a technique like Steve Vai — or there 's a British guitarist , Jan Cyrka , who does that . |
30 | Cumbernauld Theatre have duly translated it into an enjoyable and amusing production . |