Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 2 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 3 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 4 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 5 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 6 | They even had a bridesmaid , Janice MacMillan 's daughter , who helped to make it a real white wedding . |
| 7 | TWO schoolboy boxers , Joe Ainscough and Tony Maguire , helped to make it a successful night for Kirkdale ABC by outpointing their opponents , J.Addison ( Tuebrook ) and A.Khaliq ( Bradford ) respectively , at their club 's final show of the season at The Mons , Bootle . |
| 8 | Teachers Sarah , Caroline , Else and Wendy send a big ‘ Thank You ’ to everyone who supported their first ever Rally and helped to make it a big success — they are actually thinking of a second one this year ! |
| 9 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 10 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 11 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 12 | I thought I thought we 'd given it a really good airing this |
| 13 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 14 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 15 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 16 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 17 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 18 | The autumn sunlight seemed to lend it a glow ; her eyes were larger , darker , the half-open lips full and sweet as honey . |
| 19 | There vas something official about it , as if it were a guard-dog or sentinel , on the constant qui vive behind its glass eyes , taking turn and turn about with the real house-dog , and the basket of flowers was stuck in its mouth in an attempt to disarm , an accessory borrowed to lend it a harmless look . |
| 20 | Henry and Dolphin agreed to give it a whirl but Ali did n't want to be tied to a permanent set-up , which we understood , so we asked Bruce Foxton to join and he was desperate enough to accept ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You got to give it a name . |
| 22 | Glasgow was a unique case and a powerful argument now existed to make it a special case . |
| 23 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 24 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 25 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |
| 26 | I did n't really fancy it myself but decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 27 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 28 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 29 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |