Example sentences of "he [verb] it to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tells it to an Indian friend , and soon ceases to speak the tale in his own language , substituting instead the Indian 's . |
| 7 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |