Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on only roughing it a bit , I 've brought a canvas down so do n't muck it about . |
| 2 | ‘ I do and I 'm not stopping you working , just delaying it a bit . ’ |
| 3 | You just diluting it a bit in the the erm , tea . |
| 4 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 5 | The Wall Street Journal has called their bluff and finds that 12 of the 31 analysts that track IBM had buy recommendations on the stock on September 1 — and even after details of all the new cuts came out , only three had an outright sell recommendation on the stock , and last Tuesday morning , some were still rating it a buy . |
| 6 | Sarah Kent 's introduction tries to bring in the fall of Communism , which is probably pushing it a bit . |
| 7 | We take it as obviously inadequate merely to assert that fundamental syntax is semantic ; nor shall we believe that we have described ( let alone explained ) the meaning of a syntactic construction by simply giving it a name , such as attribution or predicative adjunction . |
| 8 | Instead it has , for instance , taken a $400 million shareholding ( 6 per cent of issued share capital ) in the traded stock of DeBeers Consolidated the diamond marketing company , and two seats on DeBeers ' Board , thus indirectly giving it a shareholding in the giant Anglo-American mining house . |
| 9 | Consequently , when the number of countries is small and each very similar , the clustering becomes particularly tight , thereby making it a matter of arbitrary choice to select any one variable for explanatory purposes . |
| 10 | It will arrive on a single floppy , without an installation program — you 'll have to install it manually ( creating a group and maybe assigning it an icon ) . |
| 11 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 12 | She shooed it off , vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession . |
| 13 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |