Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [to-vb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 2 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | But it is good to know they have experience of farming and intend to make it a proper home and keep cattle . |
| 4 | Now they are looking forward to next year 's event and hoping to make it a hat-trick . |
| 5 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 6 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 7 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 8 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |