Example sentences of "[verb] it a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and it 's malleable , you can hammer it , you can hammer it into shapes and panel beat it a car or bits of lead you could dress it , you can tap it with a . |
| 2 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
| 3 | When the Z variables were included in the equation , Merrick called it a test of conditional ‘ causality ’ , while if the current values of X ( and Z ) were included in the equation , Merrick termed it a test of instantaneous ‘ causality ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ No thanks , I 'll come straight out with it : rumour has it a black 's taking over here . ’ |
| 5 | And er ha has it a county ? |
| 6 | Has it a policy to enable the naval shipyards to diversify into merchant ship building ? |
| 7 | To do this , Mascot uses Dynamic Data Exchange links , which extracts data directly from the accounting system and transfers it a spreadsheet , such as Microsoft Corp 's Excel . |
| 8 | If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success . |
| 9 | He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly . |
| 10 | And there 's another possibility — that the Indians were actually following the argument between the Jesuits and understanding it a lot better than we thought . |
| 11 | ‘ Now to see if it was a real fire , ’ he said with a grin , opening it a fraction . |
| 12 | As though to tighten it a hand came to rest on hers . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out . |
| 14 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 15 | In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test-tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they have realised that not only does test-tube fusion have great commercial potential , but could revolutionise military strategy . |
| 16 | Ludovico was intent on keeping it a secret , so the ceremony was empty and impersonal . |
| 17 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 18 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 19 | Well I think we 're lucky they must be keeping it a bit longer for interest of something to all out . |
| 20 | ‘ I do and I 'm not stopping you working , just delaying it a bit . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , you mentioned it a couple of times , put there was no-one really keeping a watch on the clock . |
| 22 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 23 | As he reached the spot where Josh Cornock was likewise occupied , he heaved the elver scoop from the water and was delighted to find it a quarter full of the writhing silver baby eels . |
| 24 | And as for being fair , well , no one else ever seems to find it a problem . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe he was still small enough to find it a novelty . |
| 26 | It 's pretty obvious that American producers , catering to a market which buys 950 million tickets a year , are going to find it a lot easier to raise money than British producers , who are , by comparison , making films for a tiny coterie . |
| 27 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 28 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
| 29 | I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times . |
| 30 | I used it a lot mixed with transoxide yellow when painting in rock outcrops . |