Example sentences of "[vb past] it to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 2 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 3 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 4 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 5 | The manager of the branch concerned could not possibly pay the cheque , but , since the Ingard group has many small investors and its collapse would have wide repercussions , he at once referred it to the board . |
| 6 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 7 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 8 | ‘ Lady Amelia , you admitted that you found Lady Eleanor 's corpse in her room and , together with these sweet sisters , moved it to the foot of the stairs to make her death appear an accident . |
| 9 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 10 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 11 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 12 | He did n't hesitate and straight away reported it to the referee . |
| 13 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 14 | ‘ Dad , I found Froggy dead — murdered — reported it to the police , made my statement , and that 's it . ’ |
| 15 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 16 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 17 | I reported it to the shop , but there was nothing they could do . |
| 18 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 19 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 20 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 21 | Several companies who had previously written ‘ in-house ’ for the designer changed it to the name of an individual ; some agencies changed the name of the individual to that of their agency . |
| 22 | Miller dedicated it to the Earl of Macclesfield , then President of the Royal Society and to the Fellows ‘ for the improving of natural knowledge ’ . |
| 23 | Gina Newman has uprooted her inimitable Something Wild boutique from Swiss Cottage , and transplanted it to the more accessible environs of Covent Garden . |
| 24 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 25 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 26 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 27 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 28 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 29 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 30 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |