Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being within an ESA entitles them to grants to improve the environment . |
| 2 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 3 | He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs . |
| 4 | you had to break it to bits to eat it |
| 5 | It was their job to get results , but they left it to others to act on the research findings . |
| 6 | Let us not leave it to others to fight for our goals . ’ |
| 7 | I must leave it to economists to say how much they have learnt from his account , or where they would disagree with it . |
| 8 | If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession , he will tear it to pieces to annoy me . |
| 9 | It was one your uncle David brought up for me so that I could get take it to pieces to make the car we 'd got better . |
| 10 | We acknowledge that there are well-known problems with the domestic rate system in the UK , but leave it to readers to discern whether the emphasis on constraining local authority growth warrants this change of taxation . |
| 11 | If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority . |
| 12 | We should not rely simply on price mechanism alone , but reduce output and link it to markets to balance supply and demand . |