Example sentences of "[verb] it a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | I moved it a little way away . |
| 3 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's give it a few days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 12 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 13 | mm , have you had it a few years ? |
| 14 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 15 | A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches . |
| 16 | ‘ If so , give it a little milk to keep it quiet . ’ |
| 17 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 18 | Give it a few months , goes the cheery Tory argument . |
| 19 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 20 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 22 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 23 | We 'll try it a few times just to put it all into practice . |
| 24 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 25 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 26 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 27 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 28 | And we saw it a few times did n't we ? |
| 29 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 30 | The bistable will set or reset — try it a few times . |