Example sentences of "[pers pn] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I , I would think the black and the white were one , but mind you it goes a long blinking way do n't it ? |
| 2 | Michael Swinton is not , of course , one of our most distinguished painters , his style is too obvious , too photographic but I imagine that to you it seemed a wonderful distinction . ’ |
| 3 | Nat King Cole 's daughter told you it carried a famous name . |
| 4 | ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true . |
| 5 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 6 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 7 | Probably the largest on the earth 's surface , to me it bears a passing resemblance to a somewhat distorted version of a face that was popular in Eighties amusement arcades — that belonging to a creature called Pac-Man . |
| 8 | And er to me it presented a great opportunity , I I j I won quite a lot of books . |
| 9 | In the centre of them it has a horny beak , shaped like that of a parrot , capable of delivering a shell-cracking lethal bite . |
| 10 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 11 | Er , it it had a peculiar taste with it . |
| 12 | Yes we we envisaged that that bottle it it it has a certain sort of cache about it so we we we expected that that er a lot of sales for that eventually would go through the on trade and er obviously if it 's on trade then er the thing is automatically re-collectable and recyclable . |