Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 2 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 3 | Firstly it is clear that whatever contingencies entered into the writing of the Treatise , Keynes himself intended it as a major contribution to economic theory , free-standing and internally valid in all circumstances . |
| 4 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 5 | Last September Airtours bought the Pickfords Travel Service business in a deal which established it as a fully integrated holiday company with an airline , tour operations and travel agents . |
| 6 | Leonard Maltin is just one respected American critic who regards it as a ‘ classic and influential suspense-comic-horror film ’ , but it 's banned both on video and in the cinema in this country . |
| 7 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 8 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 9 | Arnold himself conducted it on an EMI recording of 1980 , but sadly that has yet to appear on CD . |
| 10 | The smith lifted a hoof onto his thigh , then began to scrape the compacted tan and dung which clogged it with a hoofpick . |
| 11 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 12 | This raises another spectre : as palladium is the key , what power brokerage will it give the countries which have it as a natural mineral resource — USSR and South Africa ? |
| 13 | Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 14 | Thus , despite the development since the 1970s of a whole plethora of " critical " and " theoretical " approaches to literature , English studies remained ( and remains still ) radically inconceivable without those texts which authorize it as an area of English and literary study . |
| 15 | In the early 1900s possession passed from the Walsingham family to the Gunters who used it as a country home . |
| 16 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 17 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 18 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |
| 19 | It was Pete who turned it into a car . ’ |
| 20 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |
| 21 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 22 | So er if you y'know do the desired behaviour , you collect so many vouchers and er y'know when you 've got ten vouchers you exchange it for a television or something like that , but there 's a whole range of things of that nature . |
| 23 | In 1915 the farm was taken over by Fauchons who ran it as a dairy farm . |
| 24 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 25 | Me Mary had a mi metal cow she milked it with a spout , she too |
| 26 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 27 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |
| 28 | The idea started with DEC who conceived it as an anti-OS/2 move fronted by DEC Windows . |
| 29 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 30 | It is also striking how far he took issue with Western critics of Ceauşescu 's Romania who saw it as a police-state pure and simple . |