Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 2 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 4 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 5 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 6 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 7 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 8 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 9 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 10 | Older residents recall the days when a car could be driven down this lane , but years of neglect had reduced it to a narrow path . |
| 11 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it . |
| 13 | And then she put had some warm water and er she had to have it to the proper consistency and then she 'd have a a bucket of water w standing by her side with a a jug . |