Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] it to the " in BNC.

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1 David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent .
2 Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently .
3 Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 .
4 According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague .
5 The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million .
6 Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house .
7 ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger .
8 To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 .
9 Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre .
10 BILL Clinton made it to the White House by wooing women voters with his gleaming smile , his chunky good looks and his boyish charm .
11 And on Saturday , in the rain at Newmarket , Jeremy Glover savoured it to the full .
12 Originally stolen by a wizard from a DRAGON 's cave , the Emperor Charlemagne gave it to the four sons of Aymon .
13 Betty Boop made it to the
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