Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 2 | Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days . |
| 3 | Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America . |
| 4 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 5 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 6 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 7 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
| 8 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 9 | Style , however , is often misused if the approach is ill-founded or unsystematic , and such failures have tended to give it a rather poor reputation . |
| 10 | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation agreed to give the fund a grant of £5,000 for 1993/94 and the Eastern Arts Board recently agreed to give it a £2,000 grant . |
| 11 | I understand they were persuaded to give it a further year 's grace in the hope of improvements to its organisational structure . |
| 12 | It has a university and technical colleges , and its large student population has helped to give it a reputation as a trouble-spot Muslim fundamentalist groups are very active in Asyut , and the Coptic population is large . |
| 13 | Dolan , in the meantime , has been told to give it a rest otherwise the upcoming European tour will have to be called off . |
| 14 | I am again told to give it a good , hard look . |
| 15 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 16 | — You 've got to give it a chance . |
| 17 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 18 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 19 | Under the influence of Quakers , Benthamites and others the savage penal code had been amended to give it a reformative , as well as a retributive , purpose . |
| 20 | The fabric may be textured to give it a rougher surface , resembling canvas . |
| 21 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 22 | Unfortunately , its plain white mount carrying its title offended the judge , but he still felt compelled to award it a Merit Certificate . |
| 23 | His parents ' cottage was restored to make it a suitable birthplace for such a great man . |
| 24 | Jerome had surely told all he knew , and if the burden he was carrying was even more than his due , yet he could be left to carry it a while longer . |
| 25 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 26 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 27 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 28 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 29 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 30 | Fortunately there was enough left to make it a good movie . |