Example sentences of "[vb past] it to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 2 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 3 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 4 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 5 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 6 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 7 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 8 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 9 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 10 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 11 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 12 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 13 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 14 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 15 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 16 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 17 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | I threw it to one side . |
| 19 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 20 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 21 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 22 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 23 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 24 | The Treasury , as I say , undermined it to some extent , but all the time there was duplication going on . |
| 25 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 26 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 27 | He wrote this little publicity thing under the name Truth Shows and sent it to various places . |
| 28 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 29 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 30 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |