Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |
| 2 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 3 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 4 | If you only have access to the machine once a month in a special video room , you will want to make it the centre of attention for that session . |
| 5 | Forlornly comical in photos , with its gaunt face and fluffy body , no one else from dusty patent lawyers to impassioned animal rights activists can resist calling it the Gheep . |