Example sentences of "[verb] it to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the tank lurched away the shape ignited on a surface of bare rock , blasting it to pieces . |
| 2 | If you can identify the item pictured here , please write your answer on the back of a postcard with your name and address and send it to Curiosities , The National Trust Magazine , 36 , Queen Anne 's Gate , London . |
| 3 | If you can identify the object pictured here , please write your answer on the back of a postcard with your name and address and send it to Curiosities , The National Trust Magazine , 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend correctly identifies that , and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) will have a difficult task explaining it to patients who would not be treated if his policies were implemented . |
| 5 | I do n't want to stifle discussion , but had n't we better confine it to matters within the competence of this committee ? |
| 6 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 7 | When it has done its work there still remains the task of relating it to aspects of the context which are particular and can not of their nature be accounted for in advance . |
| 8 | Dyson was glaring into the hot , oily darkness of the engine as if he were about to smash it to pieces with his bare hands . |
| 9 | The Law Commission proposing the offence had confined it to situations where the alarm or distress experienced was " substantial " but this requirement was dropped from the Act itself . |
| 10 | The assembly passed it to presbyteries and they in turn passed it on through their billets to ministers who in turn were supposed to pass it to sessions and it was supposed to be discussed at session level and turned down to ordinary congregations . |
| 11 | Well this is why we were trying to relate it to districts . |
| 12 | When we pass to the treatment of style as representation we come to an approach to literature which is less likely to make such claims to scientific status ; for rather than defining style in purely linguistic terms , its purpose is to relate it to interpretations of literary content , and these must inevitably be somewhat approximative . |
| 13 | Poor torn it to bits cor . |
| 14 | Livid with rage , he grabs their cameras and rips the film from them , tearing it to shreds and throwing it in the fire . |
| 15 | Of late years the Westminster scholars amused themselves with tearing it to pieces ; and one in particular , who bore a principal character in the police of India , lies under the imputation of having contributed in an especial manner to that havoc . |
| 16 | How else , short of applying it to humans , could one test whether a particular extract contained the carcinogenic material ? |
| 17 | The current British test meets all those requirements , but if clarification is needed , then the following is an attempt to interpret the test in the light of practical experience in applying it to films and video recordings . |
| 18 | We have therefore developed a computer based technique for the quantification of bowel uptake and have applied it to images of the distribution of Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes . |
| 19 | But if in a moment of madness you do a John McEnroe and smash it to smithereens , all you get is the satisfaction . |
| 20 | Yeah , I 'll take your little toy and smash it to pieces ! |
| 21 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 22 | Filshin claimed that the profits would be used for investment in Russian industry , likening it to arrangements under the Marshall Plan in post-war West Germany , whereby the United States had used depreciated German marks to invest in German industries . |
| 23 | The brewers , who spent millions of pounds campaigning against this legislation , have shot it to pieces . |
| 24 | The Chelonians will probably blast it to pieces . ’ |
| 25 | If the enemy are not roused and ready , three thousand could ride through their camp and cut it to tatters ! |
| 26 | The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden . |
| 27 | Girls do n't do it to boys as much as boys do it to girls though do they ? |
| 28 | I 've always much preferred to sell it to friends . |
| 29 | But if it was hot , or semi hot , we used to sell it to friends anyway , we would n't sell it to a shop . |
| 30 | That they are allowed to sell it to shops to shops cheaper than they are allowed to sell it to you . |