Example sentences of "[vb pp] it to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 2 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 3 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 4 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 6 | We have further developed the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique for measurement of tissue protein synthesis in normal and pathological tissues in man , in vivo , and have now applied it to the study of normal and diseased colorectal tissue . |
| 7 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 8 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 9 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 10 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 11 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 12 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 13 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 14 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 15 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 16 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 17 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 18 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 19 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 20 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 21 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 22 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 23 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 24 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 25 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 26 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
| 27 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 28 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 29 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 30 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |