Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 2 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 3 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 4 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 6 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 7 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 8 | Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and . |
| 9 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 10 | er for the time being and if you ask Dave about this thing you 've missed and also about what this business about erm cos he has explained it to me but I 'm not quite sure about it , this business of keeping a , a sort of l record of all the practicals for this term |
| 11 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 12 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 13 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 14 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 15 | When you want to pass it to somebody else in the press ? |
| 16 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 18 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 19 | I tried to sell it to Ian |
| 20 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 21 | I think , I think that last erm break in has done it to death has n't it ? |
| 22 | An election candidate has made it to Number 10 — in the pop charts with Evapor-8 . |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 24 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 25 | Experience here has shown it to be highly successful . |
| 26 | The theoretical advantage of this technique is that it deals directly with the oesophageal varices without affecting liver perfusion : a prospective study has shown it to be superior to standard and distal splenorenal shunts in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis . |
| 27 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 28 | I have seen a kingfisher here and a survey of the pond has shown it to be very important for invertebrates as well as amphibians . |
| 29 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 30 | Margaret Farley , who founded the bookshop in 1989 , has sold it to Susan Taylor and Michael Abrahams . |