Example sentences of "it [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 2 | That those who are not really able to pay , who are genuinely hit very hard by the current eighty three pounds , is n't it for a colour television licence , I think ? |
| 3 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 4 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 5 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 6 | He wants a quick sale , and there 's a friend of his who thinks he might like it for a weekend cottage . |
| 7 | Thieves , having stolen a car , take it for a joy ride and then strip it before setting it alight to destroy the evidence . |
| 8 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
| 9 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 10 | We use it for a bedside rug in cold weather . |
| 11 | ‘ You shall have it for a bride gift . ’ |
| 12 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 13 | The Conservatives knee-jerk reaction to this is to condemn it as a knock-out punch for everybody . |
| 14 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 15 | Between 1928 and 1930 , L. Machoň , a pupil of Jan Kotěra , adapted it as a State library . |
| 16 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 17 | Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering . |
| 18 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 19 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 20 | In the early 1900s possession passed from the Walsingham family to the Gunters who used it as a country home . |
| 21 | However since the Convention does not specify that the acceptance be directed towards the treaty parties it might not be possible to regard it as a collateral agreement . |
| 22 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 23 | Tie it to a short stick and use it as a badminton racquet . |
| 24 | The Camisards took refuge here from the Catholic armies … and the Maquis used it as a hiding place for their weapons during the Occupation . ’ |
| 25 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 26 | The intercept is the value of Y when X is zero , a pretty meaningless value when X is a mortality rate , as we noted above ; we just treat it as a scaling factor , needed to predict a given Y value from a given X value . |
| 27 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 28 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 29 | Walsall Museum and Art Gallery has developed an energetic and lively educational programme around the collection , encouraging primary school teachers to use it as a teaching aid for the national curriculum , starting up a printmaking course inspired by the works in the collection and offering prizes for the best short description of one of the works . |
| 30 | Mozart later took the work with him to Mannheim and Paris , using it as a teaching piece . |