Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it to [adj] " 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 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 3 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 5 | Basically , can people see it , because I do n't need to use it to any great extent , |
| 6 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 7 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 8 | The company is already using Concurrent Object-Oriented C in-house , and plans to offer it to public and private research centres and universities across Japan by September . |
| 9 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 10 | He was going to sell it to some Jew . |
| 11 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 12 | They went mad , they told us that we 'd got to take it to National Tyres , took it there , twenty three pound fifty it cost us . |
| 13 | It is most definitely a thriller , but with strong romantic undertones ; I would like to recommend it to both sexes as a jolly exciting read . |
| 14 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 15 | However , some of the Soviet Union 's smallest ethnic groups , principally the indigenous peoples of Siberia , were to be allowed to own land without having to put it to any economic purpose . |
| 16 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 17 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 18 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 19 | If you have a regional accent , do not attempt to change it to standard English . |
| 20 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 21 | For MAS , whilst the disclaimer will state what we have and have not done , we may still be associated with the data if we are asked to present it to potential buyers or if our name is mentioned in the document . |
| 22 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 23 | Do you want to change it to fifteen hundred thousand ? |
| 24 | The essential point , however , is not what advantage any one party might derive from the WGMS : it is the assurance that unless you choose to give it to some tiny party your second vote will count . |
| 25 | If , for instance , Ms Intrepid acquires a small cafe and wishes to convert it to high-class tearooms and this necessitates minor internal building works and extensive redecoration , planning permission will not be required , since the alterations are purely internal and do not alter the use to which the buildings are put , nor do they materially affect the external appearance of the property . |
| 26 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 28 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 29 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 30 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |