Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 2 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 3 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 4 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 5 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 6 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 7 | You got to send it to the address |
| 8 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 9 | The harsher the clause , the greater the effort needed to bring it to the attention of the buyer ( see Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes , paragraph 7–03 above ) . |
| 10 | The retired bank manager , who claims to be a Di fan and a royalist , said he ‘ sweated ’ over whether to destroy the tape or approach the princess about it before he decided to hand it to a newspaper . |
| 11 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 12 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 13 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |
| 14 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 15 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 16 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 17 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 18 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 19 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 20 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 21 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 22 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 23 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 24 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 27 | Fearing her correspondence would otherwise be intercepted , the queen-dowager had entrusted it to the care of Cardinal Bourchier — sending it by a trusted servant to the cardinal 's residence , requesting that it be forwarded to her cousin forthwith . |
| 28 | She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street . |
| 29 | Then McPherson had got rope from his car and the other man had tied it to a strap . |
| 30 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |