Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
| 2 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 3 | To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ? |
| 4 | Even without the element of uncertainty , however , potential plaintiffs may be reluctant to inflict on the company the disruption that an action against a director can involve , or expose it to the unfavourable publicity that might result from airing its difficulties in public . |
| 5 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 6 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 7 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 8 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 9 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 10 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 11 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 12 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 13 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 14 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 15 | The main benefit of owning a garden , no matter how small , is getting out there and enjoying it to the full . |
| 16 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 17 | The subsequent procedure is for the solicitor to compile a bill of costs and send it to the appropriate officer of the court for ‘ taxing . ’ |
| 18 | What you need is catharsis : get it all down on paper and send it to the Freudian fret folk at Guitarist . |
| 19 | If you wish to join , you should complete the membership form below and send it to The Royal Air Forces Association , 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London W4 3RX , together with your remittance for the appropriate membership fee . |
| 20 | If so , why not draft a press release and send it to the local press describing their achievements ? |
| 21 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 22 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 23 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 24 | Africanus ' answer ( no doubt , as often , he was following Julian ) was to construe the trust as being charged on the heir : he was being requested to abandon his claim against the debtor and cede it to the third-party beneficiary . |
| 25 | Please indicate your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by signing the enclosed duplicate copy in the space indicated and returning it to the undersigned at the letterhead address . |
| 26 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 27 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 28 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 29 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 30 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |