Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers .
2 While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment .
3 The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement .
4 His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue .
5 The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink .
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