Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deceased then asked Mr. Morgan to keep the document and said ‘ if anything happens to me , you should give it to a solicitor after my funeral . ’ |
| 2 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 3 | ‘ We felt that we should leave it to a company that specialized in the business and concentrate on adding value to our chemical materials . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 5 | I 'd do that , I 'd do it to a dog |
| 6 | From September 1974 the Diploma would become a BA with Honours , and students on existing courses or with a DipAD awarded between 1966 and 1974 could convert it to a BA if they wished . |
| 7 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
| 8 | Although there was little room to doubt that the government of the United States , with the assistance of the British and German governments , was engaged in the biggest cover-up of modern times , there was no possible way Shaughnessy could prove it to a judge and jury unless the US government opened its files — and thereby virtually incriminated itself . |
| 9 | And the people used to sharpen it to a point , why the Slippery Elm I do n't know , I 've often wondered about it really , but his person I 'm telling you about she she was delivered of a good healthy boy and everything was alright . |
| 10 | Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that if parliament did not approve his version , he would take it to a referendum . |
| 11 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 12 | Actually the solution to this minor conundrum is not all that difficult , but it takes us through some steps which are not relevant to our main line of discussion , and so we shall postpone it to an endnote to this chapter ( p. 79 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ If there is a particularly nasty piece of business to be got out of the way , a quick dose of this will bring it to a head quickly . |
| 14 | They will give it to a museum in Sydney . |
| 15 | When I have built up what I want to say , I can send it to a speech synthesizer . |
| 16 | Small babies always need a lot of luggage — nappies , jars , bottles , wipes — but you can keep it to a minimum with our checklist of the bare essentials which you 'll find in page 18 . |
| 17 | Until eventually you can get it to a stage , where you 're just doing it , because you know you can get your eleven appointments . |