Example sentences of "have [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support .
2 Conrad ( 1971 ) has shown that this has a developmental pattern and Baddeley ( 1979 ) has linked it to the development of reading .
3 At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation :
4 But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia .
5 This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’
6 And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case .
7 The word ‘ aquatint ’ has begun to obtrude itself , and it is worth taking space and time for this particular form of illustration , because of its particular beauty and because fashion , in this case probably rightly , has elected it to the aristocracy , if not the crown royal , of the illustrated book world .
8 By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic !
9 He 'd got it to an art
10 If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk !
11 I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested .
12 If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads .
13 ‘ I 'll have to report it to the station , doctor , ’ he started .
14 The only th the only thing is , is th is what we 'll do the beer , whether we 're gon na have to connect it to the brewery or whether we can get it through ourselves , I do n't know .
15 After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’
16 You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though .
17 ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’
18 The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium .
19 Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time …
20 ‘ He could n't have sold it to a Jew .
21 Do I have to do it to the end ?
22 If you want to enter the current date you can use @NOW but to fix this date ( so that it does not change to the current date next time you load the spreadsheet you will have to convert it to a value .
23 As one consultant said : ‘ We may have overdone it to the extent that , apart from in certain industries , risk management may well already be regarded as old hat . ’
24 His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible .
25 So , I shall have to take it to the petrol station in a minute .
26 In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits .
27 Together with its stultifying racial enmities , this seems to have brought it to a halt , and placed it beyond history .
28 In relation to the third charge , it was likewise clear that the bank could never have been said ‘ to have left it to the husband to obtain the signature of the wife ’ on the charge documents .
29 And then when that was done you used to have to take it to the field , and put it in we we used to put it in big heaps and then come back , fill it up , and then go out and spread it .
30 Although Woodie had given this explanation pretty often , he was surprised to have to make it to a child of six .
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