Example sentences of "[vb pp] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 2 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 3 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 4 | We have further developed the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique for measurement of tissue protein synthesis in normal and pathological tissues in man , in vivo , and have now applied it to the study of normal and diseased colorectal tissue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 7 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 8 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 9 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 10 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 11 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 12 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 13 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 14 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 15 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 16 | Several clubs have made it to the quarter final , but all have faltered , the most notable being Darlington , when they lost by a single goal to HFS Loans League side Leek Town two years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 18 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 19 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 20 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 21 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
| 22 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 23 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 24 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 25 | And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret . |
| 26 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 27 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 28 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 29 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 30 | Since its inception in 19894 , women have made it to the shortlist , but no further . |