Example sentences of "[vb past] it to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 2 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 3 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 4 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 5 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 6 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 7 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 8 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 9 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 10 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 11 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 12 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 13 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 14 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 15 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 16 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 17 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 18 | I reduced it to 14 and regular hours . |
| 19 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 20 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 21 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 22 | It went down to forty six , they negotiated things that er reduced it to forty six . |
| 23 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | I threw it to one side . |
| 25 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 26 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 27 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 29 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 30 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |