Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] it a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winner of the agility and the egg and spoon race , Mrs. Moore 's Penny made it a treble when , kitted out as a home help , she won the fancy dress title . |
| 2 | I went with Kathleen to see it a couple of days later . |
| 3 | Ramsey thought it a protection against wrongful ceremony to understand its principles . |
| 4 | Lucy gave it a moment , tugged the gown free from underneath , and then moved in silence to the doorway . |
| 5 | Mind you , Charles Laughton put it a bit of beef into it did n't he ? |
| 6 | But I always remember Ruth make it a desk , you see it only came and in she was sitting out there and this desk , all the pieces and parts were going everywhere . |
| 7 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 8 | Jane gave it a tin of meat which she had found plus — with great relief — the tin opener . |
| 9 | Big Al gives it a bash ! |
| 10 | BIG AL gives it a bash ! |
| 11 | But pangenesis was not reconcilable with the cytological consensus just emerging when Darwin published it a quarter of a century later . |
| 12 | " There 's something I call a blue-wing , " said Emily , boldly , pleased to be joining in a conversation in which she was proud to see John taking such an active part , " and my uncle Tom calls it a blue-back . " |
| 13 | And four years ago , Ricci took it a step further . |
| 14 | Endill gave it a try . |
| 15 | But Chapman doubts Forest can ever achieve the same level of success when Clough calls it a day , and he likens their position to the massive void left behind when Don Revie quit Leeds 18 years ago . |
| 16 | Lehzen made it a condition of her appointment that the princess should never see strangers except in her presence . |
| 17 | Adam made it a statement rather than a question . |
| 18 | They forfeited only one game in their rousing win while sisters Jane Thomas and Gail Richards of Rhyl made it a family affair , beating Joanne Attwood and Lara Hill of Mold in three tough sets . |
| 19 | So , lifting up its head again , Kalchu offered it a finger coated with milk . |
| 20 | At least 50,000 islanders , and 2,000 tourists , were without electricity last night as President Bush declared it a disaster area . |
| 21 | Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani took it a step farther affirming ‘ We will not discuss any plan which envisages the survival of the Baath Party in Iraq . ’ |
| 22 | As Tennyson put it a century later : ‘ The heart stood up and answered ‘ I have felt ’ . ’ |
| 23 | As Martin Kähler put it a century ago in his tellingly-named book The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith : ‘ Christian faith and a history of Jesus repel each other like oil and water ’ . |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine gave it a test-drive today — and expressed anger that the unions are using the launch to criticise Honda . |
| 25 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 26 | And Trevino made it a double after winning the US Open . |
| 27 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 28 | I 've told the others I 'm going to get Chris Parker to give it a plug . ’ |
| 29 | Dalgliesh thought it a risk that the murderer might well have thought worth taking . |
| 30 | Tuppe gave it a squint and then took a peep past the tall boy 's elbow . |