Example sentences of "and [vb past] it to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 2 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 3 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 4 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 5 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 6 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 7 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 9 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 10 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 11 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 12 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 13 | He wrote this little publicity thing under the name Truth Shows and sent it to various places . |
| 14 | Before he reached the top , Delaney paused , and holding with his legs , unslung the Uzi and brought it to one-handed readiness . |
| 15 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 16 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 17 | A fortnight later Edward sealed the text and issued it to all sheriffs . |
| 18 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 19 | Seduced by the flashy demonstrations or the apparent ease of use of the various environment managers , whether Apple 's , Windows or GEM , they adopted desktop publishing wholesale and gave it to secretarial staff on the assumption that those who produce the documents ought to be the ones who make it look pretty . |