Example sentences of "[verb] it to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 2 | However , the approach to such analysis will now be set out and the method illustrated by applying it to a trivial case for which the solution is already known from section 4.4 . |
| 3 | Now you have made this garment , show it to a good friend , or your mother or sister , at any rate someone who will be frank with you in their opinion of your work . |
| 4 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 5 | The problem concerns what is usually known as book work — the arguments laying the basis of some subject in logical terms , and developing it to a proved law or relationship . |
| 6 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A thing happened to myself Stevie , last autumn , coming on winter and I never told it to a living soul . |
| 8 | First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall . |
| 9 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 10 | Already the only preserved railway to be operating a regular commercial freight contract jointly with British Rail , the present proposals would lift it to a new level of national importance . |
| 11 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |
| 12 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 13 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 14 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 15 | The oil is normally cleaned by switching off the transformer for a week and draining the oil and transporting it to a special depot for decontamination . |
| 16 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 17 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 18 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 19 | Her eyes had opened wide in wonder , and the light entered their long-lashed blackness and turned it to a dusky , flecked gold . |
| 20 | LIFESPAN RDBI , the LIFESPAN RELATIONAL DATABASE INTERFACE , allows the LIFESPAN Manager to extract User , Module , Process Model and Design Change ( DC ) information from LIFESPAN and transfer it to a proprietary relational database of his choice . |
| 21 | it was the custom to tear a piece of rag from a garment , take it out to the holy well before dawn , soak it in the water and tie it to a nearby tree as an offering . |
| 22 | Tie it to a short stick and use it as a badminton racquet . |
| 23 | De Gaulle was more interested in exploiting the process of change ( in the interests of France and of his regime ) than in forcing it to a fixed end-point . |
| 24 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 25 | When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road . |
| 26 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 27 | It is considered a separate family of the Cercopithecoidea by some on the basis of its teeth , while others attribute it to a separate family of the Hominoidea on the basis of its postcrania . |
| 28 | ‘ If you want something done then give it to a busy person ’ . |
| 29 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 30 | At a push , you could use a disk editor , such as the one included with Norton Utilities , to recover files — just hunt down the file you want and copy it to a new file . |