Example sentences of "[verb] it to the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 2 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | ‘ You must send it to the best art gallery in London . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , may I just say , that you may recall , that at the nineteen eighty-eight A G M , we agreed that they 'd be no smoking here , er , and I hope that er er , can be adhered to , er , and finally er , I have a fairly full agenda , and the officials have have sort of er , measured it to the nearest minute . |
| 5 | If you have a call for someone , transfer it to the nearest phone or go over to them to tell them you have a call . |
| 6 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 7 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 8 | If you want to grill fast , for instance , turn the control to the large flame symbol ; slow , then turn it to the lowest flame symbol . |
| 9 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
| 12 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |
| 13 | Take it to the nearest station and get the Hell out of here before I change my mind about carting you . |