Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 2 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 3 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 4 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 5 | How about your Christmas card this year ? why not knit one and them photograph it for a really professional look ? |
| 6 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
| 7 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 10 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 11 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 12 | I said 't would not suit you , and I meant it as a compliment . |
| 13 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 14 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 15 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 16 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 17 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 18 | They gave me money , and I put it into a jar like Granny had with the egg money . |
| 19 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 20 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 21 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 22 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 23 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 24 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 25 | Finally I for one would nt be too bothered if Howard left.What he has done for the club will always be remembered , but no one man is bigger than the club ( apart from maybe Don ) , and I have it from a very good source that if Howard leaves the club , Leeds will soon run into 15 million quid.Is he worth that much ? |
| 26 | The sunlight is falling like a gentle rain and I see it as a silent , unpolluting fuel ; which when it reaches the ground bursts forth in leaves and flowers and is the strength which upholds the trees , and if it failed , all life would fail . |
| 27 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 28 | The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit . |
| 29 | There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . |
| 30 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |