Example sentences of "he [vb past] it to the [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| 5 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 6 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 7 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 8 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 9 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 10 | He tied it to the hanging bell rope . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Well , he gave it to the dirty little bugger . |
| 15 | Once he said it to the answering service . |