Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 2 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 3 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 4 | In a final jab at the purported blindness of the contemporary art groupie , Peter Hopkins has embedded a wad of garbage behind one wall , its presence indicated only by the screws securing it to the plaster . |
| 5 | To build it on the site between East Hanney and Steventon , Thames Water would have to buy up 4 farms and 16 houses , divert the road between the two villages , landscape the area around the water and build a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 6 | The 4 square mile reservoir would cover an area south-west of Abingdon in Oxfordshire and would mean Thames Water buying up 4 farms and 16 homes , diverting the road between East Hanney and Steventon , landscaping the 80 foot embankment around the water , and building a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 7 | The cup becomes the retina , and the stalk connecting it to the brain the optic nerve . |
| 8 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 9 | The circumstances might well be described as ‘ the bank leaving it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank for the purposes of signing the documents . ’ |
| 10 | Islamabad has said reports linking it to the explosions and ‘ wild and unfounded ’ . |
| 11 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 12 | Cross the road into a green lane following it to the Ffwddog road . |
| 13 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |