Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.

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1	And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past .
2	Margaret Taylor of the Dumfries Group addressed the haggis before fiercely slitting it with a huge kitchen knife .
3	The story excited some comment , and no little pointing of fingers , in Fleet Street — and Greek Street — but ultimately led Event into deeper water when the magazine printed an allegation about a Daily Mirror executive , and was obliged to promptly follow it with a full-page apology and retraction in the face of legal action .
4	He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation .
5	Regarding the winning Hands On feature in March Woodworker , despite the well-intended editorial footnote , I do feel it was a mistake to include Bill Wiseman 's fascinating but appallingly dangerous hold-down device , and to then endorse it in a recommendatory way by awarding it special recognition .
6	And it 's very important to finish off with amen and to actually do it in a very convincing way .
7	but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house
8	And , almost the opposite effect , lay your clue before your readers decently clearly , and at once follow it with a burst of action .
9	Furthermore , if the problem is seen to be women taking men 's jobs , making them unemployed , the problem is one of macroeconomic policy , and is not to be solved by effectively concentrating it in a disguised fashion among non-working wives .
10	By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules .
11	Two huntsmen have been cleared of ill-treating a horse by repeatedly striking it with a whip .

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