Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 2 | I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times . |
| 3 | John was going to make his comforting fiction — that she had not really saved the firm , merely secured it a little earlier than the normal contracts would have saved it anyway — he was going to make it true , by ( in effect ) doctoring the books . |
| 4 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |
| 5 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 6 | This obviously gave it a competitive advantage . |
| 7 | Erm just made it a er does it 's not double track er very far , but they have actually double tracked that . |
| 8 | I thought they just called it a domestic |
| 9 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 10 | The nationalization acts creating public corporations usually made it a statutory requirement for such machinery to be set up , although the form and details were left to the parties . |
| 11 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 12 | He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute . |
| 13 | Always thought it a wicked waste of a good nurse when she chucked it to marry . |
| 14 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 15 | He also made it a condition that she be treated by a psychiatrist for a period not exceeding one year . |
| 16 | These agreements not only had the effect of gaining the Indians ' approval of the film but also lent it a greater authenticity . |
| 17 | There was a new NI record for North Down 's Alison Moffitt , who hurled the javelin 47.54 metres and she later made it a double by throwing the discus 39.72 metres . |
| 18 | Stablemate Nijmegen nearly made it a double when beating all but the shock winner , Tomahawk , in the £22,500 Bic Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton Park eight days later . |
| 19 | My townie taxi-driver also found it a bewildering one , for the village of Eyam , tucked away behind the hills that form Middleton Dale , is still a pretty remote and isolated spot . |
| 20 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 21 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
| 22 | When she first arrived in Bristol Moggach lived at Badock Hall , then the only mixed hall of residence , which also gave it an aura of excitement . |
| 23 | It was the party 's ideals of social justice which eventually brought it a measure of middle-class support . |
| 24 | Because it eventually went it a high court you remember . |
| 25 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 26 | There were old traditions of Swiss independence , but the new cohesion given to the Confederation by constitutional changes in 1848 and 1874 almost made it a new nation . |
| 27 | Luke came into view and put his arms round the woman ; he smoothed her hair with one hand , then gave it a little tug — reassurance , a reminder : I love you . |
| 28 | ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . ) |
| 29 | Blatcham station never exuded sweetness and light at the best of times , but the last train from London pulled into an atmosphere of peculiarly depressing gloom and resentment : gloom of the fatigued and silent travellers , and resentment of the station staff , who evidently considered it a gross imposition that they were compelled to keep open the station until 11.20 for a handful of passengers returning from some nocturnal debauch in the metropolis . |
| 30 | I actually made it a union firm . |