Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 2 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
| 3 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 4 | They want to rip all the trees down as well they want to make it a little piazza thing do n't they ? |
| 5 | and you know we could , in those days because of the number of people employed being Electric Supply and Transport , we could erm , manage to keep it a viable proposition for an evening 's entertainment then and erm , you probably can turn this up in the , the Star they 're showing erm as he was then , one of the drivers swimming from erm Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 6 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 7 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 8 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 9 | Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit |
| 10 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 11 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 12 | Okay so we 've got s we 've , we 've discussed it a little while , we 've already got some , I mean you 're more clever at crimes than I have really . |
| 13 | You see , and , I , I now I 've handled it a little bit better , but I could n't focus much at all this morning . |
| 14 | The neck is thin but not awkwardly so , and the satin-finish lacquer and those huge , well-polished frets combine to make it a fast guitar in every direction . |
| 15 | But it is good to know they have experience of farming and intend to make it a proper home and keep cattle . |
| 16 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
| 17 | ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’ |
| 18 | Some boards have made it a procedural requirement in their regulations that evidence of title to a property be produced in support of the application for permanent transfer , where the existing licence holder 's consent is not forthcoming , or where there are conflicting applications by prospective transferees . |
| 19 | Since the formation of the first such combine in 1968 , comprising six units of production with a total of around 6,000 individual members , the Mondragon planners have made it a recommended practice to group individual cooperatives into such units . |
| 20 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 21 | Head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , and eyes and ears and mouth and nose , head and shoulders , knees and toes , me and he , I have to do it a little bit faster |
| 22 | The numbers of applications and appeals have risen markedly in recent years , particularly in the retail development sector where developers have found it a useful means of overcoming local authority resistance to particular schemes . |
| 23 | Minya was once an important stage on the journey up the Nile but aeroplanes , express trains and tourist cruise ships have left it a provincial backwater . |