Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 2 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 3 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 4 | And they only do it to the angry ones . |
| 5 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 6 | He just put it to the poor bastard . |
| 7 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 8 | The new insight is that Grb2 associates with Sos1 , and thus recruits it to the activated receptor in the plasma membrane where Ras activation is presumed to take place . |
| 9 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 10 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 11 | But one can ask why Adorno did not investigate the origins of swing before so quickly assimilating it to the prevailing Tin Pan Alley dance-band style . |
| 12 | The American critics quickly despatched it to the second-string scrapheap , but young cinema fans were n't put off . |
| 13 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 14 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 15 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 16 | He also sent it to the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition in 1955 together with his portrait of Elroy Josephs and another pastiche , Coriolanus ( Colour Plate XXI ) , based on a Signorelli in the National Gallery . |
| 17 | Its vast size probably explains why it did not sell and , as it cluttered up his hallway for some time afterwards , Minton later gave it to the Royal College student and animal illustrator John Norris Wood . |
| 18 | Your new patio will be designed and built in time for spring when you can really enjoy it to the full . |
| 19 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 20 | Might I just add that if anybody does actually pay their fee by cheques erm please make it to the right department er as as Tom will give you erm the co the correct er name for for your cheque . |
| 21 | If possible , please hand the completed questionnaire to the staff before you leave the conference , otherwise please post it to the National Office in Edinburgh . |
| 22 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 23 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 24 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 25 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 26 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 27 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
| 28 | Carritt bought it , correctly identified it as a lost early work , and magnanimously sold it to the National Gallery , London , far below the market price . |
| 29 | But I almost owe it to the reborn me not to take that kind of shit from any man again . |
| 30 | ‘ But what should happen is that the workflow should be built into the software so that it automatically decides what needs to be done , by whom and when , then sends it to the relevant person , noting the deadline , and recording outstanding requests . ’ |