Example sentences of "[vb -s] it to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 2 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 3 | If a doctor offers a risky and as yet scientifically unproved treatment the GMC surely owes it to the public either to stop the doctor offering that treatment ( outside scientifically valid trials ) or to stop the doctor practising at all . |
| 4 | The Labour party owes it to the House and the country to tell us freely , frankly and openly where it stands . |
| 5 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |
| 6 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 7 | In this phase , the shipper 's freight forwarder prepares the text of the bill of lading and submits it to the carrier for calculation of freight , and for stamping or notation . |
| 8 | but I do n't think it 's really worth worrying too much about whether he 's fascist or communist because erm the only reason really there 's only link between him and Russia and the play is A is the opposite of America , in other words George and B because his name Khrushchev which links it to the leader of the er |
| 9 | If somebody can manoeuvre your tape to the receptionist , who gets it to the secretary and then to the A&R person , it has to help your chances . |
| 10 | In the new company , Gardner Merchant Services Group , the managers have an initial eight per cent stake , with the prospect of up to 20 per cent if their performance over the next five years justifies it to the rest of the equity holders . |
| 11 | This I 'd reckoned on : each morning he bottles the gook it gives off , and , every couple of months or so , takes it to the pharmacy for like $3.45 . |
| 12 | He then takes it to the bank and gets the money , to spend as he chooses . |
| 13 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 14 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 15 | Typically the customer selects the equipment from the supplier , and the finance lessor buys it and leases it to the customer on rentals calculated to pay off the purchase price plus interest . |
| 16 | The very shabbiness of Hamley Hall in Wives and Daughters endears it to the reader ; its neglected beauty makes it a home as the grand and prosperous Towers is not . |
| 17 | He ends up doing surgery on himself and takes his heart out , listens to it like a clock and throws it to the audience . |
| 18 | This is an effective scooping block that curls under a kick aimed at the mid-section of the body and throws it to the side . |
| 19 | Without asking the woman he throws it to the dog . |
| 20 | there is a similar teleology present in Marx 's historical materialism that says there are a series of economic modes of production that societies must pass through until socialism is reached , when the economic contradictions of all previous modes are resolved Lukács borrows the structure of Marx 's economic argument and applies it to the process of knowledge/consciousness/ideology , supporting his own argument with Marx 's economic theory . |
| 21 | Its privileged position entitles it to the designation of paramount reality . |
| 22 | The addresser encodes a message in language and sends it to the addressee via speech or writing and the addressee decodes it . |
| 23 | The trouble with the model of communication in which the addresser encodes a message and sends it to the addressee , who decodes it , is , as another post-structuralist theorist has pointed out , that ‘ every decoding is another encoding ’ . |
| 24 | The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes . |
| 25 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 26 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 27 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 28 | Hence the definition of bureaucracy , referred to in Chapter 1 , which restricts it to the implementation of public policy made by elected politicians and supervised by those of their number chosen for the task and responsible for the outcome . |
| 29 | Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) . |
| 30 | Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS . |