Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 2 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 3 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 4 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 5 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 7 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 8 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 9 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 10 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 11 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 12 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 13 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 14 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 15 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 16 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 17 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 18 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 19 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 20 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 21 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 22 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 23 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 24 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 25 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 26 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 27 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 28 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 29 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 30 | And now she 'd got it with a vengeance . |