Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 2 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 3 | In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 5 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 6 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 7 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 8 | Long before er it got to Oldfield Speedy was offside . |
| 9 | It got to Number Four in the British charts . |
| 10 | Oh I du n no , it got to number one . |
| 11 | It got to number one here . |
| 12 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |
| 13 | Rhodes Music Radio ( RMR ) became the first campus radio station to broadcast live , when it transmitted to Grahamstown during the Standard Bank National Festival in July . |
| 14 | The BA has organised a meeting of trade representatives to look at the wording of the Legalities of Price Marking documentation to ensure that the advice it passed to members in September 1989 , which was approved by trading standards officers at that time , still covers all eventualities . |
| 15 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |
| 16 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 17 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 18 | In 1968–69 it amounted to £15 million and in 1969–70 £31 million . |
| 19 | Last year , it amounted to £8,150 and this year the organisers had requested an additional £190 . |
| 20 | One half of the dowry , four hundred marks , you will pay to our treasurer here by this day week , and we ourselves will see it conveyed to Master Parry . |
| 21 | It laid to rest the charges of unreliability and less-than-advertised performance that have long dogged the Pentagon . |
| 22 | Having outlined the snowballing process itself , the following sections will present the findings concerning the two principal tasks that it sought to accomplish-measuring the size of the hidden heroin sector and identifying variations between the profiles of known and unknown users . |
| 23 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 24 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 25 | ‘ Maria Callas No. 4 ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 47 , est. $200–250,000 ) , an explosive abstract composition painted by Julian Schnabel on a large sheet of dark red velvet in 1982 , shared an auction record for the artist 's work when it sold to New York property developer , Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda , for $290,000 ( £161,100 ) . |
| 26 | It did n't matter in the end , as it sold to dealer David Petrovsky ( underbid by Caldwell ) for $44,000 , who has of yet not discovered it in any photographic reference . |
| 27 | Estimated at £5,000–8,000 it sold to Danny Katz for £34,000 ( $54,400 ) . |
| 28 | When he came to , the doctor who performed it admitted to Dustin that he might have choked to death had he undergone it the night before . |
| 29 | It led to frustration on his part . |
| 30 | It led to employers spending time in filling up forms and trying to ensure that every conceivable expense was lumped together under the heading of training instead of concentrating on the training itself . |