Example sentences of "had [verb] it to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 2 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 3 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 4 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 5 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 6 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 7 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 8 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 9 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 10 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 11 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 12 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 13 | Fearing her correspondence would otherwise be intercepted , the queen-dowager had entrusted it to the care of Cardinal Bourchier — sending it by a trusted servant to the cardinal 's residence , requesting that it be forwarded to her cousin forthwith . |
| 14 | She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street . |
| 15 | Then McPherson had got rope from his car and the other man had tied it to a strap . |
| 16 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 17 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 18 | Rafiq had dug a twelve-foot hole at the bottom of the garden , and then , in the grip of one of his periodic fits of depression , had abandoned it to the spring rain . |
| 19 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 20 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 22 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 23 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 24 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 25 | He had taken it to the President , and he had liked it , and he had signed it . |
| 26 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 27 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 28 | Minton claimed he had sent it to an exhibition under the name ‘ Francis Smiling ’ and that one critic commented that Francis Smiling had been influenced by Minton 's colour . |
| 29 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 30 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |