Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 2 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 3 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 4 | If such service is requested , the bailiff then serves by inserting the summons etc through the letter-box or handing it to a person ( apparently not less than 16 years old ) at the address given in the request for summons . |
| 5 | All agree that the building they share in Aldershot , an outdated 60s 12-storey tower block , needs major refurbishment — closing it and moving to the Royal Logistic Corps training centre 20 miles away or converting it to an office block and building a new , smaller Army catering school alongside , are not seen as attractive options . |
| 6 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 7 | Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether . |
| 8 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 9 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 10 | It may not be your decision that brings it to an end , it may be someone else 's or beyond anyone 's power to decide . |
| 11 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 12 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 13 | A MAN stole scrap metal from his employer and sold it to a dealer , magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 14 | Make this Thinking Day card and send it to a Rainbow or Brownie friend . |
| 15 | The first phase of the research compares the way that expertise is learned in the normal way , with the way that a ‘ knowledge engineer ’ elicits an expert 's knowledge and transfers it to a computer programme . |
| 16 | The first congress of the ruling Popular Front , held in Ouagadougou , the capital , on March 1-4 , decided to draft a constitution for Burkina Faso and put it to a referendum within six months . |
| 17 | It wo n't want to stand around while we talk ; and if we get off its back and tie it to a fence , it will dig a hole in the ground through sheer impatience . |
| 18 | Highlight that range , and save it to a file . |
| 19 | Remove the meat and transfer it to a chopping board . |
| 20 | ( iii ) Shell the ICM out of the TE using a flame-polished micropipette and transfer it to a drop of 0.9% sodium citrate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The first task with a coin , as with any other artefact , is to try to establish its date and attribute it to a place of manufacture and authority , since we must know where and when it was made before it can give us any information about the past . |
| 23 | In this case police officers saw the defendant take a flick knife from his pocket and give it to a friend to inspect before returning it to his pocket . |
| 24 | The order form will help us to trace your purchase and link it to an ad in What Personal Computer . |
| 25 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 26 | The Hitachi team selectively removed atoms from the surface of a molybdenum disulphide crystal by bringing the fine tip of the STM very close to a particular atom and subjecting it to a pulse of electric field . |
| 27 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 28 | Polish Count recovers Leonardo 's ‘ Lady with the Ermine ’ from the Communists and donates it to a foundation |
| 29 | THE scene outside a Moscow hotel : a man in a suit unfurls an umbrella , turns it upside down and attaches it to a box the size of a fruit crate . |
| 30 | The evaluators noted the grudgingness of teachers to admit to changes in their own beliefs or practices and ascribed it to an unwillingness to accept the implied criticism that previous practice had , even unintentionally , discouraged girls . |