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Example sentences of "[verb] it [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter .
2	okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed .
3	In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen .
4	I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz .
5	When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
6	You 've done it a hundred times before . ’
7	You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do .
8	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 .
9	There 's all sorts of accidents not only having the computer switched off , you might accidentally mess the file up or erase it or whatever , er , you 've still got the original copy on the disk so if you keep saving it every ten minutes or so , then you always lose more than ten minutes ' work .
10	‘ Let's give it a few days .
11	Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he would not give it the limited powers of disposal available in clause 4(4) ( b ) ?
12	I 'm gon na give it the big lips this afternoon .
13	I 'm gon na give it the big lips when I get in those bars .
14	Let's give it the same conditions , only this time we use that as the bait . ’
15	That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right
16	Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults .
17	And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that .
18	In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age .
19	Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . "
20	He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter .
21	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 .
22	Newman slowed his Mercedes 280E , parked it a dozen yards from the rear van .
23	While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches .
24	In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier .
25	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 .
26	It save it every nine minutes or something , it 's got a backup save , you know on the
27	I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before .
28	mm , have you had it a few years ?
29	Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper .
30	A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches .