Example sentences of "to [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 2 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 3 | They used to called it the hump did n't they ? |
| 4 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 5 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 6 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 7 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We were very close to showing him the door . |
| 9 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 10 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 11 | We look forward to telling you the outcome of this invitation in due course . |