Example sentences of "[verb] everything to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’
2 The success of those appearances in the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya owed everything to the professionalism that had transformed Kylie in two short years from innocent to hard-headed star .
3 Wycliffe returned everything to the drawer .
4 Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment .
5 He performed everything to the clock .
6 They had decided against inviting Bill O'Farrell , the agent , or Leroy Burns , Grunte 's ‘ minder ’ , as the conspirators were pretty certain that those two would leak everything to the MP .
7 To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager .
8 Indeed its formulation provided the theological undergirding for having a Council at all and not leaving everything to the pope to decide alone .
9 ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing .
10 Take everything to the van and check it with Mr Sorley .
11 Dino is cool to skate with because he is better then me and he really pushes everything to the maximum .
12 I explained everything to the policeman .
13 Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster .
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