Example sentences of "he [vb past] it a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 2 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 3 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 4 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 5 | When the Chilaw kachcheri queried a sale voucher counterfoil submitted by a headman , it was explained that the seller had branded the animal with his grandfather 's name , Nicholas , because he believed it a lucky name in cattle breeding . |
| 6 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 7 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 8 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 9 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 10 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 11 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 12 | First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over . |
| 13 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 14 | He felt it a boring thing he had to do as he would probably rather do something else but nevertheless it had to be done , not to save his reputation but restore his self-respect which he felt he did not have fully if someone was allowed to insult him and get away with it . |
| 15 | He felt it a necessary part of his vocation . |
| 16 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 17 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 18 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 19 | Then , in September 1989 , in The Independent , he gave it a different slant : ‘ The idea of Active Citizenship , ’ he wrote , ‘ is a necessary complement to that of the enterprise culture . |
| 20 | When the group began , Gedge was not particularly interest in lyric-writing , and like singing , he considered it a necessary evil . |