Example sentences of "and [vb past] it to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my fourpenny pint , pushed through the pearly kings and queens , and made it to the door . |
| 2 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 3 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 4 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 5 | The upkeep of Hogarth House became neglected and it was severely damaged by enemy bombing , during the second world war , but a well known Chiswick resident who lived in the fine mansion of Grove House , Col. R. W. Shipway , J.P. , made a generous gift to the Middlesex County Council who restored the house and reopened it to the public as a museum in 1951 , transferring it to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 . |
| 6 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 7 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 8 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 9 | ‘ The two of you rolled it up planks on to the truck , roped it down and drove it to the site ; is that right ? ’ |
| 10 | About one year ago I had a clear-out and consigned it to the bin so I can not help with the actual item but I still have copy of the magazine if it is needed . |
| 11 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 12 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 13 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 14 | In 1664 he disparked Clarendon Park , the last remnant of the royal forests in Wiltshire , and granted it to the Duke of Albermarle . |
| 15 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ The exhibition , ’ she went on will probably revive interest in the period so we grabbed some of the stuff from our theatrical costumes shop up in Clifton and added it to the mixture of period we have here . |
| 17 | She looked at herself , practised an attitude , widening her eyes and sucking in her cheeks , then another , chin up , head to one side , Madonna-like in pious ecstasy , then shaking her head to dismiss the bridal vision she had attempted , plucked the lace mat from her hair and added it to the pile with the others she had finished . |
| 18 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |
| 19 | He backed the Ford out of the shed and faced it to the road . |
| 20 | She extracted the required amount of money and handed it to the girl . |
| 21 | At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard . |
| 22 | He picked a half empty glass from the floor and handed it to the man . |
| 23 | Schwarz rammed a magazine into the butt of a Walther PPK and handed it to the Irishman . |
| 24 | At Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire the remarkable follies are now vested in the Fitzwilliam Amenity Trust which has restored the spectacular mausoleum built by John Carr and opened it to the public . |
| 25 | Woolley held up a bullet and showed it to the armourer . |
| 26 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
| 27 | Myeloski produced his warrant-card and showed it to the doctor . |
| 28 | Alexei took one and nocked it to the bow . |
| 29 | Then Sophie pinched the end of the tube , put a needle into the dog 's vein , and joined it to the tube . |
| 30 | Lovernius was very pleased and asked for a bag of gold and threw it to the poet who ran beside his chariot . |