Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 2 | And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret . |
| 3 | Dan Cruickshank bought a nightmare on Elder Street ten years ago an has lovingly restored it to a dream . |
| 4 | I had no idea when we might be going to Dili , so I was unable to time my campaign , to know when to bring it to a climax , to know when I could afford to cool things down , to be nice to her , for I did n't want to be thrown out of the house there and then , did I ? |
| 5 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 6 | I say this because if you raise any objections to the contents of the report we may choose not to disclose it to the other side . |
| 7 | ‘ If you want something done then give it to a busy person ’ . |
| 8 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 9 | The problem is reproducing the image in bulk ; photocopying simply reduces it to a uniform blur , traditional litho printing is much the same . |
| 10 | They know when to knock it to the corners , when to play it short , when to feed the strikers and they do it all with the highest quality . |
| 11 | There 's also a 48bhp , 1398cc diesel engine , but VW has yet to decide when to introduce it to the UK , although September 1991 looks the most likely time . |
| 12 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 13 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 14 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 15 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | On this occasion , it once more called for the formation of a popular front against fascism , which did not endear it to the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 17 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 18 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 19 | However , the corporation 's near-monopoly of the market and its close association with the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) do not endear it to the nation 's dissidents . |
| 20 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 21 | Two women who were late for the bus at one castle were left behind to follow it to the next by taxi . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't throw it to the duck to hide , ’ he giggled ! |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night . |
| 24 | Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office . |
| 25 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 26 | Derek who was accompanied by his wife , Lorna , daughters Charlotte and Emma , and his parents , nearly did n't make it to the ceremony . |
| 27 | She added : ‘ At the time I did n't report it to the police because it would have been my word against a doctor 's . |
| 28 | At first the victim was so devastated by the attack that she did n't report it to the police . |
| 29 | Pay the money for the upkeep of each child , do n't give it to the individual workman who may have few or no children . |
| 30 | It 's like saying , please do n't tell , please do n't broadcast it to the world , I can get hurt . |