Example sentences of "[vb past] it to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |
| 5 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
| 9 | The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision . |
| 10 | They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming . |
| 11 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 12 | In a lecture which he delivered before completing the poem , he had described the " unity " of " English letters of the past " and related it to a recognizable entity called European literature " . |
| 13 | The decade closed with the publication in 1959 of the Crowther Report : the work of the Central Advisory Council established by the 1944 Act which endorsed the principle of specialization within the sixth form and related it to a high vision of what should be represented by that most English of institutions . |
| 14 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 15 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 16 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 17 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 18 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 19 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
| 20 | A few days ago an elderly gentleman came into a Dublin suburban office with a bouquet of flowers and presented it to a female staff member . |
| 21 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 22 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 23 | The brave young woman , with hands blistered and bloated and bleeding from the venomous hair-fine spines of the prickly pear , opened the fruit , dried it in the sun , and spun it to a fine thread on a spindle . |
| 24 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 25 | Initially created in 1982 , Logan has continued to adapt this work , and recently revised it to a new height of over ten metres . |
| 26 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 27 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 28 | Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame . |
| 29 | He took out the pliers settled the pilchard key firmly in their jaws pushed it to a precise distance into the keyhole and turned . |
| 30 | I attached it to a living model |