Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 2 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 3 | ‘ If the government continues to ignore us and deny our presence in this country , ’ he asked , ‘ what right has it to demand 100% loyalty from us for action ? ’ |
| 4 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 5 | Fill your answers on the coupon provided , send it to LIVE ADS by June 1 , and Roberta is your aunt . |
| 6 | Grandad Terry Potter had only just installed it to stop Adam 's bids to get into the street at Barnsley , South Yorks . |
| 7 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 8 | If you accept that it does n't matter where it is , it will have transport implications , we 've already discussed a criterion erm about relating it to transport provision and facilities . |
| 9 | Still saying 12345 , make it sound like a question — an invitation — a refusal ; say it to express anger — sorrow — joy — simply by changing tone and inflection of the voice . |
| 10 | Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources . |
| 11 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 12 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 13 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 15 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 16 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 17 | He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill . |
| 18 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 19 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 20 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 21 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 22 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 23 | In other words , you enforce the performance of a new behaviour in the situation where you want it to become routine . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’ |
| 25 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 26 | Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies . |
| 27 | This allows it to gather moisture should it become lost ; its mouth remains wet and the string is wet too . |
| 28 | The company reckons that its superstore approach allows it to offer product at a much lower price than in a conventional computer dealership . |
| 29 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 30 | In concert with other senses , the bat 's nose-leaf allows it to find prey and helps it to discriminate between , say , a cold hoof and the warmer blood-filled tissue further up the leg . |