Example sentences of "he [vb past] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 3 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 4 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 5 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 6 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 7 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 8 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 9 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 10 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 11 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 12 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 14 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 15 | He tied it to the hanging bell rope . |
| 16 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 17 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 18 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 19 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 20 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
| 21 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 22 | Well , he gave it to the dirty little bugger . |
| 23 | Once he said it to the answering service . |