Example sentences of "he [verb] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 3 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 4 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 9 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He passed it to her and she examined it briefly . |
| 15 | Then he passed it to Kalchu . |
| 16 | He passed it to Scott . |
| 17 | He passed it to Celia . |
| 18 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He sold it to Sir John Strangways , a member of the Illchester family , in 1641 ; four years later , however , the manor passed on yet again to another Illchester in part payment for fines imposed on poor Strangways for malignancy , a crime for which he was put in the Tower . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He remained associated with the business until 1966 , when he sold it to TRW in America . |
| 23 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 24 | The Royal College of Surgeons offered him 60 guineas for it , but he sold it to John Gamgee in November 1860 for 100 guineas . |
| 25 | Three years later he sold it to Fletcher Challenge for £299 million — an eightfold increase . |
| 26 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 27 | He sold it to Mallett who sold it on quickly to Fred Koch for £1 million . |
| 28 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 29 | ‘ Why would your son want Sleet when , if he sold it to me , he could have anything he wanted ? |
| 30 | 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 . |