Example sentences of "[vb past] it a rule " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 2 | They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market . |
| 3 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 4 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 5 | In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him . |
| 6 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |