Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 2 | Nothing , however , can detract from the miracle that , on Christmas Day 1973 , people who lived in a state of enmity with one another on each side of the peace-line were strangely drawn together , jointly to celebrate the Christmas story and to find in it a message of love and forgiveness and of reconciliation . |
| 3 | To belong to it a man had to be ‘ someone ’ , a person who counted as an individual , because of his wealth , his capacity to command other men , or otherwise to influence them . |
| 4 | and er I would like to make an appointment to come and see you er again next week to talk over this mortgage and to go into it a bit more |
| 5 | Each child was given a present and to go with it a box of sweets . |
| 6 | Both in popular accounts and in much social science literature , the image of a peaceful society seems to carry with it a number of associated conceptions : co-operation , communalism , absence of self-interest , and so on . |
| 7 | This section is personal to me and contains titles I want to recommend , but in October I am forced to put into it a book I absolutely detest . |
| 8 | Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop … |
| 9 | All of these factors together lead us an to recognise as it a puss forming organism which is often recognised by the term hyogenic organism , ability to produce puss in er the form of reactions it initiates . |
| 10 | If you want to live with it a while , then do n't try to deliberately hook or slice the ball ; it will only wobble worse . |
| 11 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 12 | But one does have to think about it a bit ! |
| 13 | ‘ So she wants us to pay a bit more attention , to think about it a bit . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc wants it now , the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom wants it too , but not yet , and France Telecom wants to think about it a bit more . |
| 15 | The stinging of the tree by an insect causes the tree to make for it a house of green light , a balloon of anti-matter , a jewel to adorn the nakedness of the bough . |
| 16 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 17 | You tried , tried hard , to make of it a life |
| 18 | It was perhaps precisely because both sovereigns were well aware of the criticisms which might be made of their Court that in order to fulfil their public roles in accordance with the aims which they had set themselves , they worked to make of it a thing of great splendour . |