Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 2 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 3 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 4 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 5 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 6 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 7 | How does a woman with a large inheritance commonly bestow it on a man ? |
| 8 | Araminta almost had it as a child , but it went fair — and then mouse , poor wretch ! ’ |
| 9 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 10 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 11 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 12 | Why could n't this woman simply accept it as a fact of life , part of her make-up , such as not wanting to live in the country or swim in the sea . |
| 13 | On hotel bills , they do n't , but usually they put it , including local tax , or something like , they always use to show it separately at one time , it 's a percentage , but now , very often your bill just shows it as a , including local tax . |
| 14 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 15 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 16 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 17 | in the canteen but I ca ca n't take that into the factory Only do it for a week , you 've spilt that , Helen ! |
| 18 | The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation . |
| 19 | Close the door after you , Jean , and in the meantime please keep it as a secret . ’ |
| 20 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 21 | The Royal Commission concluded : ‘ Some advocates of an insurance system evidently see it as a mechanism for automatically increasing expenditure on the NHS as costs rise . |
| 22 | I know what I 'm doing , and I tell the producer just film it like a football match . ’ |