Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 2 | So I kept it to myself . |
| 3 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 4 | So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’ |
| 5 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 6 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 7 | Terry said she was doing the stock so I left it to her . |
| 8 | This appears not to have happened in the case of Samuel Pepys 's uncle ; writing in his diary for 6 July 1661 , he related the incident of ‘ My uncle 's corpse in a coffin standing upon joint stools in the chimney in the hall ; but it began to smell so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night , and watched by my aunt . ’ |
| 9 | So I sent it to another in New York , and he took it . ’ |
| 10 | cos he kept doing it to me so I did it to him . |
| 11 | So I gave it to him , only he came past on his bike . |
| 12 | I thought , here might be a scene that would amuse Dr Johnson ; so I mentioned it to him . |
| 13 | So I mentioned it to Evelyn and , being an office-wallah , you know , and any , any e extra money she were all there , she worked it out says ooh that , it were another ten bob a week you see , well we 've been |
| 14 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 15 | " Now I put it to you , to your sense of fair play : would you have handled these Reds very gently ? |
| 16 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 17 | Now you would court martial them well I put it to the S I B |
| 18 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 19 | ‘ Why should n't I show it to him , anyway ? |
| 20 | Well look , I mean why do n't I leave it to you to get in contact with |
| 21 | I have a mind , why ca n't I use it to some good in a way that will give me satisfaction if nothing else ? |
| 22 | Then I sent it to him . |
| 23 | ‘ If it is then I give it to you gladly . ’ |
| 24 | And he did it to mine and then I did it to his , and you repaired his but you never did mine . |
| 25 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 26 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 27 | Erm it 's not working quite how I wanted it to but if I keep putting stuff on then |
| 28 | That 's how I want it to be . ’ |
| 29 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 30 | But it 's there to there , to there , to there to there I took it to there did n't I ? |