Example sentences of "and [verb] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 2 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 3 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 4 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 5 | The main benefit of owning a garden , no matter how small , is getting out there and enjoying it to the full . |
| 6 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 7 | The subsequent procedure is for the solicitor to compile a bill of costs and send it to the appropriate officer of the court for ‘ taxing . ’ |
| 8 | What you need is catharsis : get it all down on paper and send it to the Freudian fret folk at Guitarist . |
| 9 | If you wish to join , you should complete the membership form below and send it to The Royal Air Forces Association , 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London W4 3RX , together with your remittance for the appropriate membership fee . |
| 10 | If so , why not draft a press release and send it to the local press describing their achievements ? |
| 11 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 12 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 13 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 14 | Africanus ' answer ( no doubt , as often , he was following Julian ) was to construe the trust as being charged on the heir : he was being requested to abandon his claim against the debtor and cede it to the third-party beneficiary . |
| 15 | Please indicate your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by signing the enclosed duplicate copy in the space indicated and returning it to the undersigned at the letterhead address . |
| 16 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 17 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 18 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 19 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 20 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 21 | I borrow the gun and hold it to the big guy 's head . |
| 22 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 23 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |
| 24 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 25 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |
| 26 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 27 | This is the sort of cheap bitter jibe we love to say to each other when we feel wronged by life and attribute it to the lukewarm stew of Englishness . |
| 28 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 29 | We 're going to take everything you own , suckers , and give it to the black communists in Zimbabwe ! ’ |
| 30 | At the age of 18 , Antony heard the passage of scripture that was to change his life : " If thou wilt be perfect , go and sell that thou hast , and give it to the poor " ( Matt. 19 : 21 ) . |