Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America . |
| 2 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 5 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
| 6 | The two sides eventually reached agreement but not before at least one priest had threatened to make it an election issue . |
| 7 | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation agreed to give the fund a grant of £5,000 for 1993/94 and the Eastern Arts Board recently agreed to give it a £2,000 grant . |
| 8 | It has a university and technical colleges , and its large student population has helped to give it a reputation as a trouble-spot Muslim fundamentalist groups are very active in Asyut , and the Coptic population is large . |
| 9 | Dolan , in the meantime , has been told to give it a rest otherwise the upcoming European tour will have to be called off . |
| 10 | — You 've got to give it a chance . |
| 11 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 12 | Agreed to call it a night . |
| 13 | So if you want it to beco to be a third you 've still got to make it an E and call it a double flat . |
| 14 | Under the influence of Quakers , Benthamites and others the savage penal code had been amended to give it a reformative , as well as a retributive , purpose . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , its plain white mount carrying its title offended the judge , but he still felt compelled to award it a Merit Certificate . |
| 16 | Jerome had surely told all he knew , and if the burden he was carrying was even more than his due , yet he could be left to carry it a while longer . |
| 17 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 18 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 19 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 20 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 21 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 22 | If I could be absolutely sure that A and B were n't somehow mixed up in it all , I 'd be tempted to give it a go . |
| 23 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 24 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 25 | But the site team is determined to make it a winner in another way — as one of the safest sites in operation . |
| 26 | It will be the first grand event after the Christmas and New Year celebrations , and I am determined to make it a success . |
| 27 | Ideally suited to the match angler , with special events and entertainment also planned to make it a week to remember . |
| 28 | Her seven veils were much in demand ; one had fallen into the hands of the Party 's Wessex Area Treasurer who had undertaken to make it a prize in the Christmas draw . |
| 29 | Not ‘ you are what you eat ’ but ‘ you are what you speak ’ or , rather ‘ you are what speaks you ’ , is the axiomatic basis of Robyn 's philosophy , which she would call , if required to give it a name , ‘ semiotic materialism ’ . |
| 30 | As you select each colour from the palette , you are required to give it a code number or letter . |