Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter said soothingly that their reviewer , Professor Shrimp , had given it a lotta praise , and the review would probably be in the arts section , next to the film shows , on Monday . |
| 2 | Turned out that some well-meaning wally had given it a tankful of unleaded two-star . |
| 3 | Although the staff had not appreciated it , the listings of London events were quite crucial , and had given It a stranglehold on the London market , which was to be broken . |
| 4 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 5 | But there was nothing to be done ; Goibniu had made it a request that Floy and Snodgrass travel to the Fire Court leaving Fenella alone . |
| 6 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 7 | But their choices remained either in the storeroom or in the window because her father had made it a rule that the window was n't to be cleared until the day before Christmas Eve . |
| 8 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 9 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 10 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 11 | By 1990 the museum 's concentration on twentieth-century art had made it an anomaly in the collection and the decision was made to deaccession the picture , valued at $10 million . |
| 12 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
| 15 | I had thought it a measure of their love and generosity that the nuns would make the suppliants laugh . |
| 16 | He said the Vincennes ' aggressive attitude had got it a reputation as a ‘ robocruiser ’ |
| 17 | He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car . |
| 18 | He had used it a lot in Seville . |
| 19 | It was eventually returned by Agnew 's because one Anna Cavina had pronounced it a copy ’ . |
| 20 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 21 | But though everyone was near dead of curiosity , he had kept it a secret what he was planning . |
| 22 | ‘ The High Council had kept it a secret . |
| 23 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |