Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 2 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 3 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 4 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 5 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 6 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |
| 7 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 8 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |
| 9 | The ship reached the coastline just after sunrise and began to follow it in a south-easterly direction down to the sea . |
| 10 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 11 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 12 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 13 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 14 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 15 | The German Environment , Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Minister , Klaus Töpfer , initially expressed disappointment with the French action , but agreed to respect it after a meeting in Strasbourg on Aug. 31 with the French Environment Minister , Ségolène Royal , pending further talks later in the year . |
| 16 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 17 | And next door , the kitchen contained nothing superfluous but everything necessary to a woman who enjoyed food but preferred to cook it with a minimum of fuss . |