Example sentences of "[vb pp] it a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ?
2 But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council .
3 Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company .
4 It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier .
5 Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ?
6 Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to .
7 ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know .
8 Well , we 've done it a couple of times before .
9 Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind .
10 Actually I 've moved it a bit too far that way have I ?
11 Not stolen , we have n't moved it an inch .
12 A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax .
13 I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit
14 In some ways it resembled a flying fox , common throughout Malaysia ; in some ways it resembled a rat , but its easy flight and way of walking proclaimed it a bird .
15 Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah .
16 Mm I 've seen it a U as well I must admit .
17 We 've made it a slimmer , and hopefully erm more cost effective , structure .
18 But there was nothing to be done ; Goibniu had made it a request that Floy and Snodgrass travel to the Fire Court leaving Fenella alone .
19 Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter .
20 Well if you we if you knew you were gon na be sick you could have made it a bit more a different colour than that !
21 I bet that 's made it a bit lighter has n't it , with that tree gone ?
22 Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th .
23 This warmth , coupled with all the spectacular events , has made it a part of our lives we will never forget .
24 Neil Foster of Essex would have made it a year ago after his spectacular haul of 106 wickets and remembering his superb bowling when he produced the performance of his life as the Test bowling hero of Madras under Gower 's leadership .
25 Egypt has made it a capital offence to receive military training abroad ; it has arrested dozens of returning veterans and tried 26 of them before a military court .
26 It is this property 's style and comfort which have made it a favourite with Citalia customers for over 10 years .
27 I should perhaps have made it a giant .
28 The YCCC have always made it a policy to celebrate after each of their victories in the six-year ( continuing ) battle with the tannery , the city officials , and the Federal and State monitoring agencies .
29 He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ .
30 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 .
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