Example sentences of "it to [det] " in BNC.

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1 John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education .
2 While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career .
3 They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship .
4 He dared himself to say it to each new person .
5 So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other .
6 I owe it to Alison , we owe it to each other , to live this openly and simply .
7 They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something .
8 Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject .
9 A variation on the ring topology is the ‘ star ’ topology , where either the file server or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation .
10 A star topology is where the file server ( or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box ) sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation
11 c ) certainly exists : we add it to each side .
12 We must consecrate it to each other and to the gods . ’
13 ‘ I 'm not doing anything to you , ’ he breathed into her ear , ‘ we 're doing it to each other . ’
14 The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen .
15 When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " .
16 You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ?
17 As you are aware , my father left half of it to each of us . ’
18 They can write at home , they can write after school , they can read it to each other and I think this is tremendous benefit where they 're open with each other too and can discuss round the table and evaluate their own work .
19 I wanted you to make it to that goddamned fourteenth floor just as much as you did !
20 If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) .
21 ‘ … I think we owe it to that pathetic creature in there . ’
22 He argued that correctionalism ‘ systematically interferes with the capacity to empathise and thus comprehend the subject of enquiry ’ ( ibid. , p. 15 ) , and consequently increases ‘ the possibility of ‘ losing the phenomenon ’ — reducing it to that which it is not ’ ( ibid. p. 17 ) .
23 The feminist debate on pornography often , but not always , links it to that of censorship .
24 The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it .
25 I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia .
26 That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that .
27 ‘ What fun it would be to send it to that silly old Boldwood ! ’ laughed Liddy .
28 If it 's Leeds North West project , we 'll charge it to that project .
29 But if a file comes up that looks like Sarah 's file , and you fancy copying it to that floppy you can say yes and it 'll copy it on there .
30 The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output .
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