Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 5 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 11 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 14 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , as Means and Smith point out , the NFOAPA 's concentration on pensions issues caused it to ignore inadequacies in medical and social provision whilst ‘ its campaigning style was unlikely to have been appreciated ’ within the corridors of power . |
| 16 | I borrowed , I borrowed it to watch EastEnders last night . |
| 17 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 18 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 19 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 20 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 21 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 22 | It asked the Moldavian Supreme Soviet to review its August 1989 language law " in order to protect the interests of all nationalities " , and ordered it to adopt legislation ensuring equal rights for all citizens . |
| 23 | However , when the bill reached the upper house Lord Paignton amended it to let B R bid , for two reasons . |
| 24 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 25 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that notwithstanding the wording of section 8(2) of the Finance Act 1986 W. Plc. was not a member of the self-regulating organisation Lautro for the purposes of the Act and had no right of appeal to Lautro under the provisions of Lautro 's 1988 Rules ; that Lautro had a duty to act fairly not only to its members but , in appropriate circumstances , to those appointed representatives on which , in accordance with its rules , an intervention notice was to be served ; but that , in determining whether those affected by an intervention notice should be permitted to make representations before the notice was served , Lautro had to balance their interests against the interests of investors pending a full inquiry ; and that , having decided to serve the notice as a matter of urgency , Lautro should not be burdened with the necessity to decide whether time permitted it to receive representations before it served the notice ( post , pp. 575C–G , 576A–C , 577C–D , 579E — 580A , D — 581B , 582E ) . |
| 26 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 27 | The illusion of success was maintained only because the group 's high share price enabled it to buy companies on the cheap and so keep pushing up total profits and earnings per share . |
| 28 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |
| 29 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 30 | However , the United States persuaded it to accept UN Security Council Resolution 242 , giving an assurance that it would ensure that the critical wording ‘ withdrawal from territories captured ’ would mean no more than minor border rectifications . |