Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 2 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 3 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 4 | And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey . |
| 5 | Cone shells also have a stalked radula but have modified it into a kind of gun . |
| 6 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 7 | He had completely forgotten about it , not having considered it as a weapon . |
| 8 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 9 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique . |
| 11 | Aviemore , the Highland village on the fringe of the Cairngorms , was planned as a tasteful , Alpine-style centre , but garish commercial developments have turned it into a dump . |
| 12 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 13 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 14 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 15 | In her turn she came to the Sister , who extracted a folder with Orton , Stephanie Jane , EDD 13. 4.54 on it , from a pile on her left , transferred it to a pile on her right and permitted Stephanie to sit on a brown canvas and metal tube chair for another half hour . |
| 16 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 19 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 20 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 21 | You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though . |
| 22 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 23 | You and I and Miss Watson have done it with a vengeance ! |
| 24 | ‘ But I like to think that if I did n't do it , someone else would have done it with a lot less taste and love for the countryside . ’ |
| 25 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 26 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 27 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 28 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 29 | He 's done it on a shoestring budget to boot and , inevitably , such achievement has n't gone unnoticed in other Premier League boardrooms . |
| 30 | Have you ever done it on a toboggan ? |