Example sentences of "[prep] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 2 | Appropriately for the cause , the music on Tuesday night was emphatically collaborative -much of it a jam involving trumpeters Dave DeFries and Claud Deppa , saxophonist Dudu Pukwana , guitarist Lucky Ranku and others . |
| 3 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 4 | It was flag bedecked and in front of it a brass band were parading in breeches , green-Loden jackets and cocked hats . |
| 5 | The Metropolitan was deposed and strangled , individual monasteries ransacked , and Novgorod , still the greatest city outside Moscow , was despoiled in a manner which made Ivan III ‘ s treatment of it a century earlier appear positively statesmanlike . |
| 6 | A pilot plant at Staley 's Decatur headquarters already produces Ruby and a small ‘ semi-works ’ plant capable of delivering one million lb of it a year will be up and running soon . |
| 7 | A serious problem has emerged in the area over a period of months , and a series of reports have been issued , concluding with a report by the National Rivers Authority on effluent that is poured into the lagoons at Grassmoor 40,000 tonnes of it a year . |
| 8 | You tried , tried hard , to make of it a life |
| 9 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 10 | As with other contributors , exaggerated claims are made for détournement ( the communication which contains its own critique ) , firstly because it was an inheritance from Cubism and Dada , and secondly , because , as the exhibition shows , its deployment by ‘ pro-situs ’ has made of it a commonplace , popularised in punk fanzines , and ‘ Biff ’ postcards etc . |
| 11 | Two things to do with you today mainly one is to whip through at least part of the isomers work and , I say part of it because you 'll be coming back to other parts of it a bit later on when you 've , for example , we 'll coming back to erm , isomers work . |
| 12 | Well you can think of it a bit like that . |
| 13 | In one a hunts man , his hunting-horn swinging free from his neck , is sticking a stake into a wild boar , which also has a dog sinking its teeth into its neck ; in another , two lions , one very heraldic and standoffish , are attacking a gazelle , helped by a bird of prey ; in the third , which is decidedly curious , a mule leads a lolling-tongued , wolf-like animal captive while ahead of it a hunts man is tensing his bow to fire at some unseen target . |
| 14 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 15 | Indeed , to get the best out of it a phototypesetting system is an absolute must . |
| 16 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |
| 17 | 16 ) of the evacuation of Attica that the Athenians took it so badly because it was like leaving one 's polis ; this is on the face of it a paradox because they were going from their country demes to the polis . |
| 18 | In front of it a number of candles were burning . |
| 19 | Nori was successful in having overturned by legal action or the threat of it a number of government proposals in late 1989 and early 1990 . |
| 20 | EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ This is all very well but I do n't see in any of it a motive for murder . |
| 22 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 23 | The inspector general of police declared the pastoral letter seditious and possession of it a crime . |
| 24 | She picked up her heavy knitting-bag and took out of it a half-bottle of gin and a small tin of Nescafe — only it was n't Nescafe , because it rattled . |
| 25 | In front of it a crowd hundreds strong had gathered . |
| 26 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 27 | I try to keep out of it a lot now but I 'm not scared or nothing . |
| 28 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 29 | He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life . |
| 30 | We broke the back of it a lot on the work that we did for Rickmansworth . |