Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 2 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 3 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 4 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 5 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 6 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 9 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 10 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 11 | You got to send it to the address |
| 12 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 13 | He decided to sell it to the Americans who had bought the triptych . |
| 14 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 15 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 16 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 17 | The harsher the clause , the greater the effort needed to bring it to the attention of the buyer ( see Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes , paragraph 7–03 above ) . |
| 18 | The retired bank manager , who claims to be a Di fan and a royalist , said he ‘ sweated ’ over whether to destroy the tape or approach the princess about it before he decided to hand it to a newspaper . |
| 19 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 20 | In August 1915 the receiver , Mr Coombes , decided he could no longer continue in charge of the club and offered to sell it to the Leeds Northern [ Rugby ] Union Club at Headingley , who were interested . |
| 21 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 22 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 23 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |
| 24 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 25 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 26 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 27 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 28 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 29 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 30 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |