Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 2 | As last year , they will bring the skip on a Tuesday and remove it a week later . |
| 3 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 4 | The clear , vivid patterns excite the zebra 's eyes and give it a sensation of strong identity , as if it were the member of a football team or a sports club with conspicuous striped shirts . |
| 5 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 6 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 7 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 8 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 9 | Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller . |
| 10 | I thank him with a glance and push it a little closer to her . |
| 11 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 12 | I said I would " quite understand " if she wanted to cut her losses and call it a day . |
| 13 | But anyway , we finished the ‘ Space Oddity ’ album and promoted it a bit . |
| 14 | Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way . |
| 15 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 16 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 17 | I shall grow it down into a bob and have it a bit long steppy bit at the back and keep growing it . |
| 18 | All I considered necessary was to simplify the design of the icon and give it a different colour scheme . |
| 19 | Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 20 | Still , I could go into Burnley and give it a try . ’ |
| 21 | Vietnam was left to decide its own fate , and in 1975 , North Vietnam took over the South and declared it a Communist state , causing thousands to flee from the South as boat people refugees . |
| 22 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 23 | In the end he slippered Pickerage and called it a day . |
| 24 | For example , the 1986 Act removed the right to benefit for most 16- and 17-year-olds and made it a requirement that claimants pay 20 per cent of their rates/poll tax and 100 per cent of their water rates . |
| 25 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 26 | In 1910 , the Hon Charles Rothschild purchased 138 hectares of this fenland fragment and declared it a nature reserve . |
| 27 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 28 | ‘ Who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose , tae ma wee hoose tae ma wee hoose ; for who 'll come in tae ma wee hoose and make it a wee bit bigger ! ’ |
| 29 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 30 | Because I see it is of fundamental importance to achieving the environmental objectives for the new settlement and making it a decent place to live . |