Example sentences of "he [vb past] it to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 2 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 3 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 4 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 5 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 6 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 7 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 8 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 9 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 10 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 11 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 12 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 13 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 14 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 15 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 16 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 17 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 18 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 19 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 20 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 21 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 22 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 23 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 24 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 25 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 26 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 27 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 28 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 29 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 30 | He drove it to the coast . |