Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 3 | Consequently , for people in command of large quantities of agricultural produce , almost every incentive to deliver it to the town disappears . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 … |
| 5 | Anger , and the chance to shout it to the wind in the elemental language of their common childhood , fired her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Failure to ensure dogs wear a collar and some form of identification in public places will be an offence and the legislation also requires those who find a stray dog to report it to the authorities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 13 | We readily accept the need for digging the soil to open it to the air , for good drainage and manuring , for the elimination of weed competition and for the provision of nutrients for our plants . |
| 14 | The judge then held that , since the information was material , the defendants , as agents , were under a duty to disclose it to the plaintiff . |
| 15 | Staughton J considered ( obiter and on a hypothetical basis ) the effect of a term in a contract for the sale of a ship which excluded liability unless the buyer gave the supplier a chance to rectify faults and required the buyer to return it to the shipyard for repair . |
| 16 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 17 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 18 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 19 | The beauty of this method is that it is not only fascinating but incredibly cheap and will not need large capital expenditure to put it to the test . |
| 20 | Yinka , a World Championship Finalist twelve months ago , overcame glandular fever earlier this year to make it to the Olympics . |
| 21 | More significantly , if questions may not even be asked in open court about illegal tapping , how is the victim to find out about it in order to bring it to the attention of the police ? |
| 22 | He tips the giant striker to make it to the top . |
| 23 | Delaney fixed the detonating pins into the plastic , using the remaining length of wire to bind it to the timer , making a DIY bomb . |
| 24 | Time to sock it to the snorers |
| 25 | However , if the marble has enough energy to take it to the top of the hump then it will , of course , roll down the other side . |
| 26 | Both potting department sides beat teams from the dipping house and glost warehouse in a league table to make it to the final . |
| 27 | It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House . |