Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 2 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 3 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
| 4 | This is the favourite place for Romanians who want to make it to the West . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to make it to the restaurant some time this century ! ’ she heard him informing her . |
| 6 | " We want to bring it to the attention of communities that they can do something about the rubbish in their streets , " said UNEP 's Richard Lumbe , launching the campaign in Nairobi . |
| 7 | He told reporters he was overwhelmed by the unexpected prize and said he plans to donate it to the Prison Fellowship . |
| 8 | In the 16th century , an east wing was added to replace the earlier parlour , while in the 17th century a kitchen wing was built to balance it to the west . |
| 9 | Browne affirmed that it was , and in July Eliot sent a draft of the first three acts ; he had entitled the as yet incomplete play " One-Eyed Reilly " but in a postscript explained that he had decided to change it to The Cocktail Party . |
| 10 | The young men in the parliament have taken an oath of allegiance to the Lithuanian state , swearing to defend it to the death . |
| 11 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 12 | Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course . |
| 13 | Because he 's going to give it to the manager |
| 14 | So too with exhibiting : somewhere a reader may be able to grow significantly better roses than his or her neighbours , and he or she would like to put it to the test of the show-bench . |
| 15 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 16 | Yeah we 've got to , we 've got to give it to the university |
| 17 | Got to send it to the Mirror have n't you ? |
| 18 | Oh we will unless we 've gone down the wrong hill We 'll have to practice the window cleaner one if you 're going to read it to the rest of the class , have to practice the face and read it with expression so they do n't all fall asleep oh hello , hi . |
| 19 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 20 | A man would go faster than an arabeah , certainly if you took into account the time needed to explain it to the arabeah driver . |
| 21 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 22 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 23 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 25 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 26 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 27 | You got to send it to the address |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll have to report it to the station , doctor , ’ he started . |
| 29 | The only th the only thing is , is th is what we 'll do the beer , whether we 're gon na have to connect it to the brewery or whether we can get it through ourselves , I do n't know . |
| 30 | You 'd have to compare it to the Rickenbacker 650 reviewed last month — roughly the same price , but a much slicker guitar — or maybe a Hamer Special , if your tendencies are more Gibson-orientated . |