Example sentences of "[prep] it a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 2 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 3 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 4 | This image of an undamaged whole brought with it a doubt which Franca found piquant rather than disturbing . |
| 5 | ‘ Such a mist came that grim morning and with it a sound I feared then and fear now . |
| 6 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 7 | This section is personal to me and contains titles I want to recommend , but in October I am forced to put into it a book I absolutely detest . |
| 8 | The procedure is first for the Pastoral Committee of the Diocese to consult the Council for Places of Worship , receiving from it a report which sets out the architectural qualities and historic interest of the building . |
| 9 | The better view is that the Whigs were for Reform with various degrees of conviction and for a variety of reasons , ranging from that political expediency which saw in it a cause which would get and keep the Tories out , to that of moral principle . |