Example sentences of "he [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 2 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 3 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 4 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 5 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 6 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 7 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 8 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 9 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 10 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 11 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 12 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 13 | Did he make it to a tree too ? ’ |
| 14 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 15 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 16 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 17 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 18 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 19 | He drove it to the coast . |
| 20 | He showed it to the medic . |
| 21 | In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence . |
| 22 | He returned it to the Society and it was agreed that the arrow would be retained from then on as the Papingo Trophy , with each winner adding a gold or silver medal bearing his name and the year of his success . |
| 23 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 24 | He raised it to the air . |
| 25 | He swung it to the extra-cover boundary and Sabina Park , where everyone had been generous in Test defeat , could not have celebrated more had the World Cup been won . |
| 26 | He takes it to a garage like you know what I mean and |
| 27 | Without asking the woman he throws it to the dog . |
| 28 | Waiting a moment , he placed it to the boy 's mouth again . |
| 29 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 30 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |