Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 2 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr and Mrs Brown , of Barton , gave a desk and an anonymous friend drove it to the hospice . |
| 8 | The city continued to thrive until a massive earthquake razed it to the ground in 749AD . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 11 | ( Car and Driver magazine compared it to a toggle switch ) . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | In the winter of 1926–7 a power struggle brought it to the attention of the police . |
| 14 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 15 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |
| 16 | In the case of two of the charges , the court held that , Mrs. Aboody having come to the bank herself to execute the charges , it could not be said that the bank left it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature . |
| 17 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 18 | Yeah received it last week Chief brought it to the meeting on Tuesday evening last week but the quickest like most national organisations somebody was sick right E B P week is the twenty first March |
| 19 | Surgeons at Middlesbrough General sewed back on Aaron Solomon 's thumb after his dad carried it to the hospital , packed in ice . |
| 20 | Several companies who had previously written ‘ in-house ’ for the designer changed it to the name of an individual ; some agencies changed the name of the individual to that of their agency . |
| 21 | Alternating euphoria and despair , intense struggle and the depths of apathy are found in Chopin 's piano music , which from exile in Paris celebrated Poland 's folk music and at the same time elevated it to the role of a respectable and specifically bourgeois art form . |
| 22 | Tiare 's mother gave it to the mission . ‘ |