Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 4 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His third nephew Ted had made it to family specifications in his forge in the village of Moulden . |
| 8 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 9 | Nobody apart from Wayne had mentioned it to him , though , which probably meant that while their mouths were shut their minds would be running in overdrive . |
| 10 | Owen had put it to her and , slightly to his surprise , she had agreed . |
| 11 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 12 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 13 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |
| 14 | And he 'd been out shooting , but Tosh had give it to this feller |
| 15 | Umpire Ken Palmer had no more chance than any other human being of seeing to the inch whether Gooch had made it to safety in those split-seconds . |
| 16 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 17 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |
| 18 | They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be . |
| 19 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 20 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 21 | He wore his sling again , for Isay had returned it to him wordlessly earlier that morning . |
| 22 | Soon after they had arrived in New York Anna had torn a dress and Mrs Carson had handed it to Ruth to repair . |
| 23 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 24 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 25 | When Matilda had demanded an explanation , Isabel had given it to her , omitting nothing . |
| 26 | Ben had explained it to her . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 28 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 29 | Movement from scene to scene does not use scrolling as per Lucasfilms , but requires that you completely leave one location and then enter another — this is not as smooth as other game systems , but Sierra have refined it to a fine art . |
| 30 | Antoinette had left it to her , plus some gold bangles and a string of pearls . |