Example sentences of "[vb past] it to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 2 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 3 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 4 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 5 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 6 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 7 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 10 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 11 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 12 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 13 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 14 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 15 | Erm , may I just say , that you may recall , that at the nineteen eighty-eight A G M , we agreed that they 'd be no smoking here , er , and I hope that er er , can be adhered to , er , and finally er , I have a fairly full agenda , and the officials have have sort of er , measured it to the nearest minute . |
| 16 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |
| 19 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 20 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 23 | Once privatised , BNP is likely to emulate Société Générale , which has shed staff , costs and unprofitable accounts since Mr Balladur , then finance minister , returned it to the private sector in 1987 . |
| 24 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 25 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 26 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 27 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 28 | Another copy was sent to a Belgian huissier who delivered it to the Belgian respondent 20 days after the date of the judgment . |
| 29 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 30 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |