Example sentences of "[verb] it to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 2 | The prosecutor may decide to terminate the case , treat it as délit or , exceptionally , send it to an examining magistrate . |
| 3 | The primary task of monetary policy is to fight inflation , keeping it to an acceptable level . |
| 4 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 5 | Articles written by the gallery 's curatorial , scientific and conservation staff in the latest volume ( number 14 ) include an analysis of the underdrawing found in Raphael 's ‘ Garvagh Madonna ’ during a study by infra-red reflectography , prompted by the examination of the recently identified ‘ Madonna dei Garofani ’ by Raphael ; an account of the history , conservation and painting technique of two of Canaletto 's Venetian scenes in the Gallery 's Collection , ‘ The stonemason 's yard ’ and ‘ The upper reaches of the Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo ’ ; the results of the investigation and treatment of Laurent de la Hyre 's ‘ Allegorical Figure of Grammar ’ , relating it to a second version in the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ; and a discussion of the technique and perspective scheme in Bramantino 's recently restored ‘ Adoration of the Magi ’ . |
| 6 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 7 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 8 | However , the approach to such analysis will now be set out and the method illustrated by applying it to a trivial case for which the solution is already known from section 4.4 . |
| 9 | Now you have made this garment , show it to a good friend , or your mother or sister , at any rate someone who will be frank with you in their opinion of your work . |
| 10 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 11 | The problem concerns what is usually known as book work — the arguments laying the basis of some subject in logical terms , and developing it to a proved law or relationship . |
| 12 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 14 | First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall . |
| 15 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 16 | Already the only preserved railway to be operating a regular commercial freight contract jointly with British Rail , the present proposals would lift it to a new level of national importance . |
| 17 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |
| 18 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 19 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 20 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 21 | The oil is normally cleaned by switching off the transformer for a week and draining the oil and transporting it to a special depot for decontamination . |
| 22 | Let y be the percentage of list votes given to that party , i.e. the votes that will entitle it to an identical percentage of all the seats , constituency and list , in the region . |
| 23 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 25 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 26 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 27 | The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party . |
| 28 | it was the custom to tear a piece of rag from a garment , take it out to the holy well before dawn , soak it in the water and tie it to a nearby tree as an offering . |
| 29 | Tie it to a short stick and use it as a badminton racquet . |
| 30 | Jones , now 19 , and living in Holyhead , said Roberts and son , Ian , would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |