Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 32 | Well you you do it to a certain extent you 've got descriptions |
| 33 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 34 | So good that , providing you take it to the right places and use it expertly , you should have no difficulty in doubling your pocketmoney every week . |
| 35 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 36 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 37 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 38 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
| 39 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 40 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 41 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 42 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 43 | Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it . |
| 44 | We 're already so far ahead of our expected ratings that they keep suggesting we move it to an earlier time , but I wo n't let them . |
| 45 | We take it to the self-same spot and detonate it . ’ |
| 46 | That 's it , and then erm then we take it to the next stage . |
| 47 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 48 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 49 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 50 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 51 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 52 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 53 | When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road . |
| 54 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 55 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 56 | They slowed it to a steady well , but it would n't stop , and through it all there was the awful screaming . |
| 57 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 58 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 59 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 60 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |