Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This device consists of a corrosion-proof , non-toxic probe which sits in the tank water , and a two metre cable to connect it to an earth point , in your cable tidy or elsewhere . |
| 2 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 3 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 4 | Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market . |
| 5 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 6 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 7 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 8 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 9 | 587 , 596 : ‘ it seems to us that in taking the article from the shelf the customer is indeed assuming one of the rights of the owner — the right to move the article from its position on the shelf to carry it to the check-out . ’ |
| 10 | Brian Gordon Laudable sentiments Brian , but I have a funny feeling the organisers were more than glad that a big name team made it to the final . |
| 11 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 12 | Consequently , for people in command of large quantities of agricultural produce , almost every incentive to deliver it to the town disappears . |
| 13 | I take his point about maintenance and I shall of course draw it to the Housing Executive 's attention . |
| 14 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Brown , of Barton , gave a desk and an anonymous friend drove it to the hospice . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no love for the very common attitude which places certain literature and pictorial matter in the realm of art to justify it to the establishment … |
| 19 | Anger , and the chance to shout it to the wind in the elemental language of their common childhood , fired her . |
| 20 | The city continued to thrive until a massive earthquake razed it to the ground in 749AD . |
| 21 | Scrubbing , and classifying ; air , gravity and magnetic separation ; flotation and flocculation can all be brought to bear on a sample to reduce it to a number of fractions . |
| 22 | The spirit was dissuaded from returning to haunt the living by the relatives placing soil on the corpse to fasten it to the ground , putting burning embers outside the door to bar its path and whispering in its ear the plea that it would not return . |
| 23 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 25 | 5.19 Statutory notices etc To give full particulars to the Landlord of any notice direction order or proposal for the Premises made given or issued to the Tenant by any local or public authority within [ 7 ] days of receipt and if so required by the Landlord to produce it to the Landlord and without delay to take all necessary steps to comply with the notice direction or order and at the request of the Landlord but at the cost of the Tenant to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall deem expedient Seven days may be too short a period , particularly if the notice is served at the premises and not forwarded to the appropriate officer of a tenant company with any great alacrity . |
| 26 | Commander Richard Compton-Hall , museum director , said that the first step in salvage was to get any party with a claim to the wreck to relinquish it to the museum . |
| 27 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 28 | ( Car and Driver magazine compared it to a toggle switch ) . |
| 29 | Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed . |
| 30 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |