Example sentences of "and [vb past] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 3 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 4 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 5 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 13 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 14 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 17 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |
| 18 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 19 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 20 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 23 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
| 24 | She snatched the food down , threw it across the river shore , but on second thoughts rescued the precious meat and tied it to the slim horse that was now her steed . |
| 25 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 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 | He had the Russian love of obfuscation , and indulged it to the full in his will , in which he left several pictures to the Hermitage . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |