Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 2 | The citadel bacame a furniture warehouse , before it was bought by Tamara Malcom and her husband in 1973 and they applied to convert it into a theatre . |
| 3 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 4 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 5 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 6 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 7 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 8 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 9 | In 1899 , when the New York , New Haven , and Hartford Company had built their magnificent new station at Providence , Rhode Island , they had planned it without a train-shed . |
| 10 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they had to park it in a a , an alley on the side . |
| 13 | They wanted to make it into a special dress but it would not come right . |