Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 2 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 3 | In our answer to question 4 we have included it as a current account balance in order to reduce Susan 's exposure vis-a -vis Bob . |
| 4 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 5 | ‘ Cypress Hill are smoking funk , and they 've rolled it into a fat album featuring ‘ How I Could Just Kill A Man ’ and ‘ Hand On The Pump ’ . |
| 6 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 8 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 9 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 10 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 11 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 12 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 13 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 14 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 15 | A bit tricky under the circumstances , although I 've never actually done it with a raving loony . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 17 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 18 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 19 | Chlorine is relatively easy to measure I 'm sure you 'll all of done it at A level chemistry titration , silver nitrate ? |
| 20 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 21 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 22 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 23 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 24 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |
| 25 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 26 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 27 | Philip accepted my idea , and incorporated it into a memorable paper he gave to the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1955 ( published in Arch . |
| 28 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 29 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 30 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |