Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter .
2 ‘ Perhaps I put it on a bit , but that 's a bad house . ’
3 Er well I left the stuffing cos I , I did n't think I 'd left it in long enough , I put it in a bit late and I thought we 'd leave the stuffing .
4 I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun .
5 I won it off a chap at poker . ’
6 ‘ You know the answer to that , and so does Beryl now , though I wrapped it up a bit to save her having a fit on the spot .
7 Allen told a conference prior to the company 's annual meeting that March calling volumes were strong , ‘ even discounting for some weather which popped it up a bit . ’
8 No , you pull it out a bit at a time , not just
9 you pushed it back a bit hard I expect .
10 Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ?
11 Can we turn it up a bit ?
12 little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months
13 One contained a great still lake , and they crossed it along a rock-bridge that sprang dizzily from wall to wall .
14 Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit .
15 Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it .
16 He cleaned it up a bit and a scrap yard and it , and this thing and they were like hills and rock gardens , you know like
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