Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to shorten it to ‘ Other Scenes ’ . |
| 2 | Under the act the holder of information has to disclose the type of information they hold , where they 've got it from , and who they intend to disclose it to . |
| 3 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 4 | see they 've got it to for a fortnight which you do n't get paid . |
| 5 | They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’ |
| 6 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 7 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 8 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 9 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 10 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 11 | Unfortunately appearances has been misleading and heavy filling was found as they started to take it to bits . |
| 12 | The bear outgrew the hut very quickly , and when it got to about 23 stone they decided to give it to London Zoo . |
| 13 | And they , they , sort of the panel met , and they decided to give it to her , because hers was the nearest to a result . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 16 | And they 've converted it to two flats . |
| 17 | But she said they 've let it to people and they 've just wrecked the inside of it ! |
| 18 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 19 | The student 's friends said he was ‘ wacky ’ and ‘ into violence ’ , but until his murderous frenzy they had believed it to be entirely in his mind . |
| 20 | FIMBRA pointed out how useful they had found it to ‘ track ’ those of their members who had other business interest in addition to their financial services companies . |
| 21 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 22 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 23 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But they had to smuggle it to Germany in the boot of a car . |
| 26 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 27 | To take one example , how will workers respond to the realization that the rate of inflation is not zero , as they had expected it to be , but is in fact positive ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 30 | The trade unionists have learnt the lesson ; they have taken it to heart . |