Example sentences of "[verb] it to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 2 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 3 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 4 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 5 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 6 | Once an agreement has been registered in the register of restrictive agreements ( which is open to public inspection ) , the Director General may refer it to the Restrictive Practices Court for a decision on whether the restrictions it contains are contrary to the public interest . |
| 7 | It is already happening in New Zealand where you can qualify for a remission of 60 if you dig the grave yourself , provided you can do it to the proper standards as prescribed by the local district council and bring your own tools . |
| 8 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
| 9 | To complete the single market and extend it to the seven countries of EFTA . |
| 10 | We 're going to take everything you own , suckers , and give it to the black communists in Zimbabwe ! ’ |
| 11 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 12 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 13 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 14 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 15 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 16 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 17 | You pass it to the two blokes . |
| 18 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 19 | Convert it to the same units , use the formula and then I mean that 's a gift that is n't it ? |
| 20 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 21 | I 'll leave it to the young men , like yourself . |
| 22 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 23 | Now I want at least , to intro introduce the possibility in the series of diagrams I 'm going to show you in this lecture that we can relate it to the four stages of pathogenesis that we , we outline briefly er , in the last lecture . |
| 24 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 25 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 26 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 27 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 28 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 29 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 30 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |