Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 2 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 3 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 4 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 7 | Laura , having grasped the necessity of a calm private life for herself , tried to make it an attainable goal for all through her products . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They even had a bridesmaid , Janice MacMillan 's daughter , who helped to make it a real white wedding . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The autumn sunlight seemed to lend it a glow ; her eyes were larger , darker , the half-open lips full and sweet as honey . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You got to give it a name . |
| 17 | Glasgow was a unique case and a powerful argument now existed to make it a special case . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 20 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |
| 21 | I did n't really fancy it myself but decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 26 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 28 | He auditioned the song for the show and all went well , but on the night of the big gig itself , the Editor of CBS-TV Programming decided to give it the chop , fearing that the talking blues , which lampooned both the society and racism in general , might upset redneck viewers . |
| 29 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 30 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |