Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] it to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 2 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 3 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 4 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 5 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 6 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 7 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | On this occasion , it once more called for the formation of a popular front against fascism , which did not endear it to the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't throw it to the duck to hide , ’ he giggled ! |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night . |
| 12 | Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office . |
| 13 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 14 | Derek who was accompanied by his wife , Lorna , daughters Charlotte and Emma , and his parents , nearly did n't make it to the ceremony . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ At the time I did n't report it to the police because it would have been my word against a doctor 's . |
| 16 | At first the victim was so devastated by the attack that she did n't report it to the police . |
| 17 | We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 20 | We had delivered it but they had n't taken it from the gate house to you know , normal procedure but they , we delivered it normally but they had n't taken it to the exact part of the hospital it was going to . |
| 21 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |