Example sentences of "[verb] it the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real ale — or cask-conditioned beer , to give it the correct technical name — is the champagne of the beer world , a beer that reaches maturity inside its container in the pub cellar . |
| 2 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 4 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 5 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 6 | ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film , ’ says Singleton . |
| 7 | Singleton : ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film ’ |
| 8 | set up , which started at Adams and we used the American mission near Lovedale well it was a part of Lovedale and erm , now , now it 's at er , they call it The Federal Theological Cemetery |
| 9 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 10 | And , as the European manufacturer operating in the only home market where tenders are genuinely open , ICL has succeeded in making itself truly competitive , so much so that insiders are saying that profits for 1992 will be only slightly below the £62.4m recorded for 1991 , making it the only profitable mainframer in Europe . |
| 11 | Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment . |
| 12 | Jim joked : ‘ I 'm thinking of renaming it the royal loony burger . ’ |
| 13 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 14 | It landed in the sand , hopping on to the upslope and , when Lyle got there , he knew he could hit it the required 140 yards to the pin . |