Example sentences of "we [verb] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time we had to travel in from our suburb to the city for clinic visits , we made it a treat day . |
| 2 | We made it a bit more Kinks-y and added just a little bit of flamenco , but how can you improve a great song like that ? ’ |
| 3 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 4 | We made it a condition that , as far as possible , teachers and pupils should be observed working in their usual way . |
| 5 | ‘ And shall we make it a pwethent to make it happy ? ’ |
| 6 | Erm you know , five years hence , we do n't want it in five years hence , we want it the end of this year , early next year . |
| 7 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 8 | It gets hard work and er someone comes along and says well can we do it a bit quicker ? |
| 9 | ‘ Shall we give it a miss then ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Matey encouragingly , ‘ we hold it every year , and we usually make quite a large sum to give to the various charities connected with the Church . ’ |
| 11 | We give it a drink of water when it 's thirsty and then the tiny flower begins to grow . ’ |
| 12 | We give it the cook and she cooked it . |
| 13 | We consider it a problem , though invariably others do n't understand what on earth we are talking about . |
| 14 | Why should we keep it a secret ? |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , we like it the way it is . |
| 16 | But then we developed it a bit further like we did with negative numbers . |
| 17 | And we trace it every time . ’ |
| 18 | Because — as you may not be entirely surprised to hear-How the Sage Saved the Bride from the Dybbuk is one of the best-loved tales in the Limnititzker lore ; we tell it every year , with several other old favourites , on the anniversary of the great Wonder-Rabbi 's death . |
| 19 | Are we to consider it an activity in itself or as an instrumental activity significant only in terms of ends ? |
| 20 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
| 21 | But we called it a playhouse , it felt like one . |
| 22 | It was small and murky and we called it a lochan . |
| 23 | After three sticky nights we called it a day . |
| 24 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 25 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 26 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 27 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 28 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |