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

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1 CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year .
2 It had been Great-Aunt Alicia who had considered it a marvellous and exciting opportunity and persuaded her to accept it .
3 ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’
4 That 's why the Campaign for Real Ale has named it a regional Pub of the year , an honour the 86 year old landlady is delighted to accept .
5 You 've done it a hundred times before . ’
6 ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’
7 You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do .
8 All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure .
9 Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot .
10 Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers .
11 Since then , however , the creating of life peers has lent it a meritocratic rather than an aristocratic character and governments need no longer fear the exercise of its blocking power to the same extent .
12 Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . "
13 He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter .
14 She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women .
15 She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose .
16 In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier .
17 Some boards have made it a procedural requirement in their regulations that evidence of title to a property be produced in support of the application for permanent transfer , where the existing licence holder 's consent is not forthcoming , or where there are conflicting applications by prospective transferees .
18 It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 .
19 Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle .
20 Another penny would have made it a tidy
21 The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly .
22 Mr Browne said : ‘ The challenger being put up has made it a tighter fight and is endangering the seat . ’
23 The since Terry took over the ground everything 's been refurbished and new crush rails put up you know , and he seems to have made it a good ground .
24 Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage .
25 It is largely self-sufficient in coal , chemicals , and fish , and the recent discovery and exploitation of oil in the North Sea has made it a net exporter of the substance .
26 This absorption gives the spectacular deep blue that has made it a popular material for ornaments since the Middle Ages .
27 Since the formation of the first such combine in 1968 , comprising six units of production with a total of around 6,000 individual members , the Mondragon planners have made it a recommended practice to group individual cooperatives into such units .
28 Austria 's central location has made it a natural corridor for East-West trade for many years .
29 Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit
30 Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics .
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