Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 2 | She was perfectly turned out : patterned black tights , black pointed ballet shoes , snug black mini dress , and an expensive Marlon Brando black leather jacket with the arms hacked off to turn it into a waistcoat . |
| 3 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 4 | ( Amazing how quickly BR abandoned its scheme to close Marylebone when a scheme popped up to turn it into a kind of Victoria Coach Station for northern routes ! ) |
| 5 | Although the American constitution was ratified by state legislatures , in more recent times the people are almost universally called on to ratify it in a referendum … |
| 6 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 7 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 8 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 9 | Even after the iconoclasm of the Reformation , when much of the abbey church survived only because of its adaptation as parish church , James VI fell under its spell , granted it to his queen , Anne of Denmark , and set about refashioning it into a sumptuous palace . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , she set about searching it in a methodical fashion , discovering in the process just what she had expected : nothing . |
| 11 | How do I go about making it into a cheese ? |
| 12 | The laughter had subsided , the ladies were folding the coat and dress and were about to lay it on a tissue-papered bed in a cardboard box , when Agnes said , ‘ What size shoes does she take ? |
| 13 | Then they sold the old market to Citicorp which set about restoring it as a trading floor , aimed at meeting the demand generated by Big Bang . |
| 14 | If the sleeve is released and dropped on the floor , the dog will pick it up and run round shaking it in a play-type mode . |