Example sentences of "it to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured equal quantities of coffee and hot milk into a cup and handed it to her with a mocking grin . |
| 2 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |
| 3 | Madeleine 's hands seized the pillow and held it to her in a quick embrace . |
| 4 | But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance . |
| 5 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 6 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 7 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 8 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 9 | Rather than offer it to them on a first-come , first-served basis , we offer it just to new business coming in . |
| 10 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 11 | The General , perhaps to make his point , informed Aitken of the authoritative report that the government had received and offered to lend it to him for a short while . |
| 12 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 13 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 14 | Because even after you 've applied and your policy has been issued you still have 14 days to return it to us with no financial obligation . |
| 15 | The painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin shatters our ‘ knowledge ’ of the world by presenting it to us in a new way , as if we were children and his bowl of fruit stood just above our eye-level . |
| 16 | , look at the sentence below , will the management charges greatly increase , the answers no because time has shown the management charges rise at a rate below the level of inflation I suggest it to you to the ordinary person , they would think that the management charges there meant the costs that are listed above see |
| 17 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 18 | She 'll bring it to you in a few minutes and it 'll help you keep your strength . ’ |
| 19 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |