Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet .
2 Well I do n't think I want a Golf if it 's not a G T I .
3 Do you , for instance , want a disco because it will bring a welcome break to an otherwise ( necessarily ) heavy and demanding programme , or could it prove too sharp a contrast and interrupt the concentration you 're trying to establish ?
4 There 's also lots of built-in security — you need to point a credit card-style infra-red sender at the PC and press a button before it lets you enter your name and password ; only then does it load DOS .
5 I like the cat where you press a button and it brings a mask up over his face .
6 But the thing is that your er particular area you know , if you wanted to do one and not save it , you do n't have to save , you know , you know you can print it off and it 's done , but you can send mail to Tracey or headquarters C A , you would n't have to print it out once it 's what you want you just press a button and it goes .
7 THE family and the trust seek a declaration that it would be lawful to stop the feeding that is keeping Tony alive .
8 The DHAC did , in fact , provoke a backlash but it was by no means as intense as the persecution which many earlier Irish leftists had to suffer .
9 Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it .
10 I cough a bit but it still tastes good .
11 As I undo the hooks , I catch a fingernail and it dangles from my own by a thin string of adhesive .
12 Such elders may be stoically enduring remediable suffering , have internalised an ageist view that old folks should not have many desires ‘ at their time of life ’ , or hold a belief that it is wrong to want things , or to be assertive .
13 Most contents policies cover a bike while it 's at home , but to cover it elsewhere you must get the value specially added to your policy .
14 Occasionally they injure a fox and it gets away , presumably to die sometime later .
15 I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response .
16 And are you still looking for the thing where you go and buy and you give a fiver and it 's worth
17 The organisational changes that come with white-collar CCT and its attendant activities create an environment where it is all the more imperative for the traditionally federal style of Town Hall management to look very carefully at how it manages its electronic records .
18 With the old method it would take you hours looking through files , but with the computer you just push a button and it tells you right away .
19 Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn .
20 The worst bits in the book raise a suspicion that it was hastily written , or not rigorously edited : ‘ I mean , we were teenagers .
21 If it is obvious that a word is a loan word , keep it , but make a note that it is a loan .
22 They hear a song and it 's rave , rave , rave .
23 ‘ I think you get a reputation and it goes before you .
24 This costs £26.64 ( £29.65 in London ) , but you get a refund if it 's found to be faulty .
25 I do n't know when it 's for , but it is for when , that 's what it 's called , you get a list and it is sort of ante
26 I mean , none of us get a hard-on when it comes on .
27 The other element is that the county 's are so dangerous , and that 's actually quite unusual , they 're so dangerous that we consider they present a risk and it has to be me that considers it presents a risk to life , and I can either restrict the use of premises , but I can prohibit the use entirely .
28 Would every ‘ past service ’ raise an implication that it was to be paid for , so as to allow action on a subsequent promise of payment ?
29 I mean , you get meters normally , the meters we 've got at work and you just turn a knob and it 's got ohms , volts , amps frequency you know , whatever .
30 Keep a notebook if it helps and make sure that you make a collection of the situations that cause a program to crash .
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