Example sentences of "[verb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and it 's malleable , you can hammer it , you can hammer it into shapes and panel beat it a car or bits of lead you could dress it , you can tap it with a . |
| 2 | Because Times is a fairly heavy face , that is , it looks very dark when there 's a lot of it on the page , we 'll lighten it a little by having more space between the lines so the leading or inter-line spacing will be set to 11pt . |
| 3 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 4 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
| 5 | When the Z variables were included in the equation , Merrick called it a test of conditional ‘ causality ’ , while if the current values of X ( and Z ) were included in the equation , Merrick termed it a test of instantaneous ‘ causality ’ . |
| 6 | Has it a dimensional or polar bias ? |
| 7 | ‘ No thanks , I 'll come straight out with it : rumour has it a black 's taking over here . ’ |
| 8 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 9 | Has it a policy to enable the naval shipyards to diversify into merchant ship building ? |
| 10 | Has it a that as ? |
| 11 | And er ha has it a county ? |
| 12 | To do this , Mascot uses Dynamic Data Exchange links , which extracts data directly from the accounting system and transfers it a spreadsheet , such as Microsoft Corp 's Excel . |
| 13 | If an almanac editor gets ten per cent of his predictions right in a given year , he counts it a success . |
| 14 | He jerked it a couple of times , and somewhere inside the cavernous depths a bell jangled loudly . |
| 15 | And there 's another possibility — that the Indians were actually following the argument between the Jesuits and understanding it a lot better than we thought . |
| 16 | ‘ Now to see if it was a real fire , ’ he said with a grin , opening it a fraction . |
| 17 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 18 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 19 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 20 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 21 | High vaulted ceilings and historic frescoes have inspired the Fine Arts Commission to designate it an historic monument and guests feel they are living with history . |
| 22 | As though to tighten it a hand came to rest on hers . |
| 23 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out . |
| 25 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 26 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 27 | In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test-tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they have realised that not only does test-tube fusion have great commercial potential , but could revolutionise military strategy . |
| 28 | Ludovico was intent on keeping it a secret , so the ceremony was empty and impersonal . |
| 29 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 30 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |