Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 2 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 5 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 6 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 7 | Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame . |
| 8 | The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision . |
| 9 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 10 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 11 | Guidebooks liken it to the Austrian Alps , but my wife reckons it 's more like the Norwegian fiords . |
| 12 | Is there any point taking it to a local Sainsburys ? |
| 13 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
| 14 | The deal caused sufficient outcry to force Greiner to refer it to the anti-corruption Commission . |
| 15 | Normally the charge will be repaid when the property is sold but the Board has a discretion to transfer it to a substitute property in certain limited circumstances ( see reg 98 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 18 | If you intend varnishing the window , first use wood dye on the filled area to match it to the surrounding timber . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps that 's because it was a private home until its owner gave it to the National Trust . |
| 20 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 21 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 22 | As the carriage is moved along the needle bed , the brush on the leading edge of the sinker plate will be pushing on the weaving yarn which has been laid over the needles to move it to the right position . |
| 23 | It found it ‘ indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions . ’ |
| 24 | A security cordon was thrown round Oxford City Centre bringing it to a virtual halt as police evacuated thousands of shopperss , workers from offices and college students . |
| 25 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 26 | However , the Government leave it to the financial operations of others , and meanwhile the economy is run on the basis that one might be able to regulate but not to promote . |
| 27 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 28 | He took out the pliers settled the pilchard key firmly in their jaws pushed it to a precise distance into the keyhole and turned . |
| 29 | Tolstaya buffs it to a new shine : ‘ The wind droned in the trees and water flew in the wind , and birds , cawing , bushed in billows in transparent trees , on rusty domes ; clear puddles trembled , reflecting the lights of stands selling dumplings , vodka and meat pies ; and alarm , life and desire breathed , smiled , and ran in the air — common property , unclaimed , no-one 's . ’ |
| 30 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |