Example sentences of "[vb past] it to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 .
7 In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre .
8 He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge .
9 ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul .
10 First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall .
11 R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale .
12 Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle .
13 Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out .
14 He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century .
15 The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy .
16 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 .
17 Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet .
18 Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’
19 She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man .
20 When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road .
21 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 .
22 Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency .
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 The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands .
25 The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision .
26 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 ’ .
27 They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming .
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 He tied it to the hanging bell rope .
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