Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used it to listen to Wagner on the tube , it turned her five-foot and a small something into a snarling Valkyrie , keeping the loonies at bay . |
| 2 | They ordered it to return to Neryungri , where 41 women and children passengers and six hijackers left the plane ( two accomplices now joined the remaining original hijackers , however ) . |
| 3 | " I thought it belonged to Preston ! " |
| 4 | That was an excess of suspicion , for the letter was drafted by David Hunt , vice Bevir who was ill , and Hunt made it conform to precedents . |
| 5 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 6 | When he came to , the doctor who performed it admitted to Dustin that he might have choked to death had he undergone it the night before . |
| 7 | To Hank 's intense relief , at no point did it occur to Boyd to inquire what the book was about . |
| 8 | Not for the first time did it occur to Meryl that there was an obscure kind of convenience in having a schizophrenic on the premises . |
| 9 | Did it apply to agnostics faced by Islamic hordes ? |
| 10 | Later he said to his wife , ‘ Why did it have to crow at Mr Clare like that ? ’ |
| 11 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 12 | When they tried to get rid of toxic waste in Bolsover , the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food had it sent to Severn Trent in the west midlands . |
| 13 | They then had it driven to Kent , where it was buried in a field behind Richens ' parents ' house in the village of Ightham . |
| 14 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |
| 15 | While Prince Charles had been capturing Perth and advancing on Edinburgh Castle Cope had led his main army east from Inverness to Aberdeen and then , making use of his superiority in seapower , had it shipped to Dunbar on the East Lothian coast , about 34 miles [ 54 km ] due east of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | His supporters hijacked an internal Soviet flight on Nov. 8 and forced it to fly to Ankara , in an attempt to publicize their cause . |
| 17 | Belgian police said it belonged to Joahanna Van Der Mast and disappeared in 1988 from the village of Lanaken . |
| 18 | He asked the others about the letter " I " : Hodgkiss said it brought to mind Henry James 's simile for the dress of Sarah Pocock , " scarlet like the scream of someone falling through a skylight " . |
| 19 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |