Example sentences of "[to-vb] it a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 2 | But there 's a lot of adulterated cockney in the home counties , I used to hear it a lot in Hertfordshire . |
| 3 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
| 4 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 5 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 6 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 9 | Headquarters personnel were pressed into this defence , in Peter Young 's words , ‘ to give it a bit of depth ’ . |
| 10 | Quigley stopped , clearly expecting her to give it a bit of movement , but , instead , she went into a sort of mammoth clench . |
| 11 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 12 | to give it a bit of something to help us to move it |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In your road test of the Peugeot 605 SRdt ( 20 February ) you comment that the only car to give it a run for its money is the Citroen XM . |
| 15 | Capital and energy costs together would come out at about $25 per barrel to give it a dose of 2.5 Mrad for 2–3 minutes , which would be highly competitive with incineration . |
| 16 | We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding . |
| 17 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 18 | Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class , there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it . |
| 19 | I mean he 's , he 's not got the reading tend to give it a sort of late |
| 20 | When I 'm not working , I tend to give it a break from putting anything on it . |
| 21 | So we are going to give it a lot of coverage , and obviously put it in places like the information centre . |
| 22 | Stein-am-Rhein is in some ways a reproduction of all that is wonderful about Schaffhausen , but with enough added subtleties to give it an identity of its own . |
| 23 | The presence in the Ashcroft mosaic of the same four-peltae device as is visible in the mosaics of Frocester and North Leigh suggests that it also might be included , but in its neat execution and possession of a form of " squat-urn " it is better to consider it a product of the former unitary group . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) seems to consider it a matter of amusement . |
| 25 | Are we to consider it an activity in itself or as an instrumental activity significant only in terms of ends ? |
| 26 | ‘ We are trying to keep it a surprise for our honoured guests . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 28 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 29 | I 'm going to keep it a secret from everybody . |
| 30 | The chairman , Martin Jay , told me they were always looking for new ideas to raise money but they want to keep it an event for the family , a rural event based on the race . |