Example sentences of "[vb pp] it to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Poor torn it to bits cor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The brewers , who spent millions of pounds campaigning against this legislation , have shot it to pieces . |
| 5 | The average East German was unable to spend his holiday at the Black Sea , as the government-led tourist industry had allocated it to Westerners . |
| 6 | It is no wonder that , hearing that uncanny sound coming out of the mist , the old sailors ascribed it to mermaids or sirens or strange creatures of the deep . |
| 7 | He always told them to forget it because the School was falling down , it was subsiding , and one day would crumble and disappear : the trains had shaken it to pieces . |
| 8 | I have some sheet music which belonged to my mother , unless the mice and rats at Low Birk Hatt have chewed it to bits . |