Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then . |
| 2 | Which you and you 've given it an extra name of mumsy S L P . |
| 3 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 4 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 5 | Erm And yes you 've guessed it an old Motown hit from erm back in the sixties . |
| 6 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 7 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 8 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 9 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit |
| 12 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 13 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 14 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way . |
| 23 | I have called it an unorthodox theory because few adhere to it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |
| 26 | 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 . |