Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 2 | Having reached the most distant onlookers , a young couple pushing up-and-down a baby in a pram , the girl drew tight the neck of the bag and strolled with it to the stage . |
| 3 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 4 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 5 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 6 | Cautiously he mounted the remaining stairs , recognised the figure for what it was and stepped over it to the wheelhouse . |
| 7 | It was like a door opening suddenly , and for a split second Sarella saw behind it to the affection Marc felt for his feckless younger brother . |
| 8 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 9 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 10 | A stream ran through it to the river . |
| 11 | The woodland , marching up the hill , vanished before it but reached an arm around to the west , fringing the road , and then ran behind it to the north , forming a long backdrop to the palm house and the terraces . |
| 12 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 13 | The house owner found it and ran with it to the boat . ’ |