Example sentences of "and [vb past] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 3 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 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 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 11 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |
| 12 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 13 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1987 , I founded by prestigious First Turkey of the Christmas Season award and gave it to the British banker who had lent ( and lost ) £500,000 to a penniless student for him to play stock market futures . |
| 20 | Son a Southwark hat manufacturer , Vaughan purchased Constable 's ‘ Haywain ’ from Christie 's in 1866 and presented it to the National Gallery , London that year . |
| 21 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
| 22 | The Turks despised trade and commerce and left it to the Christian zimmi to conduct such activities . |
| 23 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 24 | Doc Threadneedle parked his bike next to two Maniak sickles , and chained it to the hitching post , setting the boobycharges in the padlock to blow if anybody tried to tamper with it . |