Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is one of the things that some studies have shown it to be the case , other studies have n't . |
| 5 | Since then , however , two further studies have shown it to be no better than placebo and inferior to 5-ASA . |
| 6 | But more recent studies have restored it to respectability ( e.g. , Hanson , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | He always told them to forget it because the School was falling down , it was subsiding , and one day would crumble and disappear : the trains had shaken it to pieces . |
| 8 | They have occurred because policy makers or practitioners have judged it to be appropriate to their views and implementation has begun . |
| 9 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
| 10 | Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services . |
| 11 | ‘ The lawyers have offered it to me , it 's true . |
| 12 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 13 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 14 | Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 16 | The car has broken down and my two mates have taken it to a local garage to get it fixed . ’ |
| 17 | The first is to convey a picture of ordinary later life and its diverse patterns and meanings as older men and women have expressed it to us . |
| 18 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 19 | Since its inception in 19894 , women have made it to the shortlist , but no further . |
| 20 | Several clubs have made it to the quarter final , but all have faltered , the most notable being Darlington , when they lost by a single goal to HFS Loans League side Leek Town two years ago . |
| 21 | Quite a few prisoners have mentioned it to me without being prompted |