Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 2 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 3 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 4 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 5 | To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice . |
| 6 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 7 | Naturally I do n't want to risk a recurrence of the trouble , but equally , I hate missing any Ireland match and I 'll be giving it a full blast in the final training session to make sure I 'm 100 per cent . |
| 8 | I 'm doing it a funny way this time . |
| 9 | Diane is a DesignaKnit dealer and she will be demonstrating it a various events , including the Webbington Show at the end of October . |
| 10 | Oh yes been making it a long time . |
| 11 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 12 | It 's the Independence Day celebrations in the United States next Monday , and , from what Liz said , it seems that most people in America are making it a long holiday weekend . ’ |
| 13 | The Russians are certainly trying to bring the two sides together for talks and end the fighting , but , so far , they are finding it a hard row . |
| 14 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 15 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 16 | It 's give it a new lease of life . |
| 17 | Engineers know that the way to make something that resists damage is to give it a modular structure . |
| 18 | A good thriller , and Corgi is giving it a major campaign . |
| 19 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 20 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 21 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 22 | It was leaving it a little bit late , even if there was the possibility of serious trouble in the summer , not to be talking about it . |