Example sentences of "it [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 2 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 3 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 4 | • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL |
| 5 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 6 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 7 | It was also announced that the MoD were to optimise the development value of Hullavington , probably offering it for a large housing development . |
| 8 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 11 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 12 | AIR FRANCE last night signed a deal with Sabena , giving it about a 25 p.c. stake of the troubled Belgian national carrier . |
| 13 | ten years ago now they took out these tremendous mortgages because their wages had trebled , it , it about a ten year period , you know when the boom was on |
| 14 | There 's a lot of it about A late-season flu bug has bitten Scotland , writes Ian Mullen |
| 15 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
| 16 | and then just do it as a straight bar graph . |
| 17 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 18 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 19 | She pro they buying it as a joint family present this year . |
| 20 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 21 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 22 | I told Michael Quirke how a heron had once nearly landed on my back in Wales , and he was mightily impressed , taking it as a good luck omen . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Briggs , Clarkson and Aldridge are not confident that the conodont animal can be placed in either the Chordita or the Chaetognatha , and regard it as a separate Phylum Conodonta . |
| 24 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 25 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 26 | Mrs Gibson described it as a living history book . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We could still make our drama about disputes between neighbours , however , and organise it as a whole group drama — simply by setting each of the improvisations in a single street . |
| 29 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | Three options for Bart 's — keeping it as a smaller specialist hospital ; closing Smithfield site with services moved ; or combined management with the Royal London and London Chest Hospitals . |