Example sentences of "[verb] it to [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full-back Wadsworth 's ‘ remarkable accuracy ’ turned defence immediately to attack by the way he could ‘ take the ball from an opposing forward and send it to the forward he thinks will make the best use of the pass ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 2 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 3 | ‘ The first impulse of every critic of postmodernism ’ , Ihab Hassan recently suggested , ‘ is still to relate it to the semanteme it contains : namely , modernism ’ ( Hassan 1987a : 214 ) . |
| 4 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 5 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 6 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 7 | If there is money to spend , they should give it to the man who has won two championships at Everton . |
| 8 | Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , to get confidence when rehearsing your speech , read it to the person who is most likely to be encouraging . |
| 10 | Lovernius was very pleased and asked for a bag of gold and threw it to the poet who ran beside his chariot . |
| 11 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 12 | He was interrupted in dressing by a knock at the door , and opened it to a man he recognised , one of Taheb 's body servants , an Assyrian who despite years in the Black Land still wore a long oiled black beard in ringlets . |
| 13 | Rescuing a piece of the frill from the dress , Ellie cut it to the shape she wanted , attached it with pins to the back of the headband , laid it down , picked up Terry 's brush , backcombed the other girl 's hair so that it stood further out from her head , giving a similarity of the style she thought she should have , carefully arranged the head-dress , and turned Terry back to the mirror . |
| 14 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 15 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 16 | Thus only will suspicion be averted — and I myself enabled to gather information about yourself and the king and convey it to the queen your mother . ’ |
| 17 | Eugénie kept it with her in her house at Farnborough Hill until her death in 1920 and on her death she bequeathed it to the Abbey she had founded to house the tombs of the Emperor and the Prince Imperial . |
| 18 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
| 19 | Then he wrote a novel and sent it to a magazine which rejected it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll just put it here , ’ he said , taking it to a table which was just a long low slab of something transparent . |
| 21 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 22 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 23 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 24 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 25 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 26 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 27 | Mr Clancy sold it to a trickster who paid with a worthless stolen cheque . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia . |
| 30 | Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) . |