Example sentences of "and [verb] it a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
2 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
3 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
4 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
5 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |