Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 2 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 4 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 5 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 6 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 7 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 8 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 9 | just done it in a project . |
| 10 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 11 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
| 12 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 13 | If you 've just bought it from a shop and you 've had it years |
| 14 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 16 | Owner Dave Vernon has lately replaced it with a rare late-sixties single-tailed Mooney M-10 Cadet version ( right ) which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami . |
| 17 | But they have not replaced it with a presumption that the market can always be left to get on with it . |
| 18 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 19 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |
| 20 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |
| 21 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 22 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 23 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 24 | So it sounds as if he 's just renewed it after a while . |
| 25 | The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation . |
| 26 | But professional specialists themselves have largely rejected it as a solution . |
| 27 | Have you ever done it on a toboggan ? |
| 28 | We have always seen it as a milestone on the road to closer integration and closer unity . |
| 29 | Although the Club is a private one , we have always seen it as a service to the local community , particularly the younger members . |
| 30 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |