Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 2 | Westfields , Virginia-based Genicom Corp reports that Dell Computer Corp has chosen it to be Dell 's preferred printer provider : financial terms were not released , but Genicom said the partnership is expected to be a multimillion dollar opportunity for both companies . |
| 3 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 4 | I have seen a kingfisher here and a survey of the pond has shown it to be very important for invertebrates as well as amphibians . |
| 5 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 6 | The theoretical advantage of this technique is that it deals directly with the oesophageal varices without affecting liver perfusion : a prospective study has shown it to be superior to standard and distal splenorenal shunts in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis . |
| 7 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 8 | to erm the hospitals and erm they would appar , I might be wro , I 'm sure this is the way she explained it to me cos one of the girls in the branches did explain it to me once , and they said they have a choice of joints , like the doctor would say er |
| 9 | Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details . |
| 10 | There was a truce between Rose and Gabriel , but none between Shirley and Gabriel because Gaby had discovered it to be Shirley who had leaked her secret to Rose . |
| 11 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 12 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A war veteran had sold it to him ; part of the booty plundered from some Boer farmhouse . |
| 15 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 16 | But according to a report in The Builder , some architects protested against the competition , while P. L. Hardwick wanted to limit it to British architects . |
| 17 | An Austrian commission of inquiry into the condition of a Czech reactor just inside the border between the two countries has found it to be in an extremely dangerous state . |
| 18 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 19 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 20 | Clearly , she did n't remember Jake had given it to Ruth , and Ruth said nothing ; she did n't want to talk about it . |
| 21 | The list of names was approved by the Prince Consort before Hall had sent it to Palmerston . |
| 22 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 23 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 24 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 25 | We then see the goal , hopeful chip into the box , Rush attempts to take it to one side on the half volley with Fairclough bearing down , misses it completely , flies up and hits him in the shoulder . |
| 26 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 27 | Wendy Bell ( Private & Offshore Banking , Edinburgh ) and Judith Stobbie ( Branch Services , Edinburgh ) who were in last year 's winning team failed to make it to this year 's final . |
| 28 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 29 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 30 | But both knew that the Aristotle File was too important — too potentially damaging to the Seven — for Berdichev to have kept it to himself : for it was no less than the true history of Chung Kuo ; the version of events the tyrant Tsao Ch'un had buried beneath his own . |