Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 2 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 3 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 4 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 5 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 6 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 7 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 8 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 9 | And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons . |
| 10 | I attached it to a living model |
| 11 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 12 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 13 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 14 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 15 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 16 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 17 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 18 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 19 | Another copy was sent to a Belgian huissier who delivered it to the Belgian respondent 20 days after the date of the judgment . |
| 20 | By the end of September it had reached a news agency reporter in Manchester , who offered it to the Daily Post , an ailing middle-market Fleet Street tabloid , for £15,000 . |
| 21 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 22 | Its whereabouts remained unknown until it was consigned at auction by a private collector in Spring 1990 , and bought by collectors who gave it to the Metropolitan . |
| 23 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 24 | He attempted to dribble a Stephen Brown back-pass from out of his goal area but the ball broke for Ferris who chipped it to the far post where the lurking McBride made it four with a diving header . |
| 25 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 26 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 27 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 28 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 29 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 30 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |