Example sentences of "it a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we teach our daughters that er , er , the first and foremost duty they have to perform in life is to like after your husband and elders and bring up the family , and the economical side , contribution from the er female is secondary , although they claim it a part as well , erm as economically as well . |
| 2 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 3 | There , is it a girl or a boy , that 's a boy obviously . |
| 4 | They may well love the new baby , but that does n't stop them giving it a tweak when your back is turned . |
| 5 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 6 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 7 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 8 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 9 | A quick handshake , and a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of his voice , and she could call it a day and go home gracefully . |
| 10 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 11 | If you are outside the UK , You should get it a day or so late anyway . |
| 12 | Is it a man or is there a woman ? |
| 13 | Yet , perversely , she found it a relief that he kept his distance . |
| 14 | It is not only more kind , but more intelligent , to give it a rest or let it slow down . |
| 15 | His work represents the brilliant efflorescence of a dying culture : he pushed that culture together by an act of will , giving it a shape and context which sprang out of his own obsessions , and the certainties which he established were rhetorical certainties . |
| 16 | It has close to it a park that provides pasture for a large herd of deer and wild goats . |
| 17 | And you can the new v village can bring forward with it a park and ride initiative that will complement other such initiatives taking place around York . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was keen to give it a go because Leicester are one of the top clubs , and so it was n't something I could refuse , was it ? |
| 20 | ‘ Okay , then , I 'll give it a go if you 'll pay for the diesel and if I can see you Saturday night . ’ |
| 21 | I say let's give it a go and see what happens . |
| 22 | We 'll we 'll give it a go and we 'll |
| 23 | we 'll ask Liz to do it , and give it a go and then talk through it . |
| 24 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
| 25 | otherwise you could have him knocking on your door and you know let's give it a go and |
| 26 | Mm I 've seen it a U as well I must admit . |
| 27 | With a child , you 've only got to take your eyes off it a minute and anything might happen . |
| 28 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 29 | It 's too early to call it a breakthrough but it is different because it does n't set out to kill tumours , it stops the process which spreads them . |
| 30 | Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top . |