Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] 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 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 3 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 4 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 5 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 6 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 7 | I did show it to one of the department and he read it through … |
| 8 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 9 | And he 'd been out shooting , but Tosh had give it to this feller |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No one did want the films , not in America , at least ; Nicholson and Hellman had tampered with the popular view of western history and had taken it to deeper levels , failing totally to appreciate that mass audiences enjoyed westerns purely because they provided escapism . |
| 12 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 13 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 14 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 17 | We all had a solution and we all wanted to present it to one man alone " said Kambiz Atabai |
| 18 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 19 | 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 . |