Example sentences of "[vb past] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The form of privatisation , normally held to be conversion into a limited company with sale of shares and promise of profits generated from the company 's activities was unclear , but most took it to mean sale at auction . |
| 32 | Chang made it to match point on Lendl 's serve . |
| 33 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 34 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 35 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |
| 36 | We simply did it to amuse people . |
| 37 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 38 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 39 | The physician Paracelsus ( 1490 — 1541 ) saw it as a ‘ magnetic ’ influence enabling people who possessed it to heal others , ‘ as perfume emanates from a lily ’ . |
| 40 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 41 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 42 | For this reason UNLU cautioned it to boycott Schultz , through the strikes and demonstrations it was able to organize during his visit to Israel , 3–5 June . |
| 43 | Most atheists were in favour of abolishing blasphemy while nearly all Muslims wanted it to cover Islam . |