Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 2 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 3 | Maybe he was still small enough to find it a novelty . |
| 4 | A vet who wishes to examine a cat may approach it in this way before , for instance , holding it down to give it an injection . |
| 5 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 6 | Normally I er put a banana and a strawberry together to give it a different taste . |
| 7 | Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top . |
| 8 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 9 | He can be assured , if that is so , that even those who disagreed with his decision will work together to make it a great success . |
| 10 | This project aims to analyse the business and social composition of London at that crucial stage of its development , and so to make it a substantial contribution towards our understanding of the emergence of the modern British state and its economy . |
| 11 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 12 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 13 | We can buff them until they shine , or you can have just a natural erm base coat on just to give it a shine . |
| 14 | And just to give it a centre . |
| 15 | It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name . |
| 16 | To interpret a text is not to give it a |
| 17 | The festival is opening to the public until the end of the week but if you are not an ale fan its probably best to give it a miss . |
| 18 | most definitely , I do n't think it 's gon na go in there , oh it might do , just to protect it a wee bit , you know |
| 19 | Let's say it starts of with just to make it a bit easier for you so it does n't come like this let's say it starts with fifteen engines on , and what 's its weight with fifteen engines on ? |
| 20 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 21 | You 're probably very proud of your masterpiece , and erm , there 's ot there 's the temptation to keep making minor improvements , just to make it a bit better . |
| 22 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
| 23 | So just to make it a little bit more exciting And then this is this is it finished off then . |
| 24 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 25 | John McFall , MP for Dumbarton and Labour Scottish affairs spokesman on crime , presented a private member 's bill yesterday to make it an offence to carry an article with a blade or point in a public place . |
| 26 | Dozens of disabled from all over Gloucestershire turned up to give it a try . |
| 27 | The unstoppable pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are doubling up to make it a foursome for the race from Mortlake to Putney tomorrow . |
| 28 | The new operators are setting out to make it a much bigger draw . |
| 29 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 30 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |