Example sentences of "have [verb] it a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither partner has given it a thought for years , but let some outsider come barging in as though he owned the place and it 's war . |
| 2 | Egypt has made it a capital offence to receive military training abroad ; it has arrested dozens of returning veterans and tried 26 of them before a military court . |
| 3 | This warmth , coupled with all the spectacular events , has made it a part of our lives we will never forget . |
| 4 | Hooker David Spiers , who played against Fiji and New Zealand , has called it a day long with lock John Robertsen , who was injured against France after appearing in the opening win over Fiji . |
| 5 | Thousands of travellers are expected at the event , even though a court has refused it a music licence . |
| 6 | I mean I think shrinking the broadsheet width has spoilt it a lot . |
| 7 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 8 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 9 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 10 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 11 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 12 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 13 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 14 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 15 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 16 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 17 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 18 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |
| 19 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 20 | Well if you we if you knew you were gon na be sick you could have made it a bit more a different colour than that ! |
| 21 | Neil Foster of Essex would have made it a year ago after his spectacular haul of 106 wickets and remembering his superb bowling when he produced the performance of his life as the Test bowling hero of Madras under Gower 's leadership . |
| 22 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 23 | I guess , if he 'd known , Osvaldo would have made it a priority to kill them all . |
| 24 | Pretty , dramatic Suzie , who could twist the younger members of the male sex round her beautifully manicured fingers , would have made it a point of honour to test her feminine power over Svend . |
| 25 | I should perhaps have made it a giant . |
| 26 | You could have told it a mile away . |
| 27 | Okay , well maybe we could have called it a day now . |
| 28 | Many a player would have called it a day then ; not Audley . |
| 29 | And er I think some people might have called it a slum , I suppose they were in a way . |
| 30 | In this Style File ( perhaps we should have called it a Riff File ) we will look at some of his best known parts , as taken from his extremely successful ‘ Reckless ’ and ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ LPs … |