Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 2 | She pulled off a fluffy piece and with sticky fingers offered it to Uncle Albert . |
| 3 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 4 | The appointment of Valuev was not quite the retrograde step that some contemporaries thought it to be . |
| 5 | And in gratitude , ‘ the old lady gave it to my father . ’ |
| 6 | I had the opportunity to study the document because my hon. Friend drew it to my attention as we came into the Chamber . |
| 7 | An English friend sent it to me . |
| 8 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 9 | The two popular actors left it to director Richard Donner to make sense of it all at the end of the day . |
| 10 | This found that 7% of Irish voters wanted abortion to be legal under all circumstances and another 57% wanted it to be legal under certain circumstances . |
| 11 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 12 | They are the ones who — as one such teacher put it to me — are over the hump but not over the hill . |
| 13 | Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism . |
| 14 | And it was n't until the end of the Second World War that the tiny trees made it to the west . |
| 15 | Such measures brought it to heel for the time being ; but this was to be the last occasion before the end of the old monarchy when the government won a real victory over this increasingly dangerous opponent . |
| 16 | Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market . |
| 17 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 18 | Conflict erupted between the Soviet Union and China , and inside the East European bloc , and even before the collapse of the communist regimes there were vigorous manifestations of nationalist feeling in those countries which included different national groups within their boundaries , whenever political conditions allowed it to be expressed . |
| 19 | Each banker took it to be part of some Brand strategy of which he was privileged to see , and be entrusted with , but a small portion . |
| 20 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 21 | Certainly it was Bernard 's initial belief , in the early days of our marriage , that contraception was a sin : Papal authority held it to be so , and Bernard 's allegiance was to the Pope . |
| 22 | His own journalistic scalps now adorned the walls rather than those of O'Mara — a photograph of the doorknob nose in the company of Mikhail Gorbachev , a flag of the African National Congress , and a TV award so shapeless Dexter imagined it to be modelled on a cow turd . |
| 23 | Without doubt , everyone agreed , this extraordinary display proved it to be a tree pipit . |
| 24 | This was replaced by Alan Cull , our chief engineer , during the evening at Wick , and a short trial showed it to be satisfactory . |
| 25 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 26 | You see it likewise as your noble lord gave it to me on his deathbed . ’ |
| 27 | The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People tried it to scourge Hollywood ; but Hollywood just giggled . |
| 28 | Robert Burns called John Tennant , ‘ a worthy , intelligent farmer , my father 's friend and my own ’ and his regard is borne out by the fact that when he was offered tenancy of Ellisland Farm , Dumfries , it was to John Tennant he turned for advice ; they travelled together to the farm and after an inspection , the older man recommended it to his young friend . |
| 29 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 30 | what , it did n't need eighty schemes did it to be launched before you introduced it , it 's something you 'd been wanting to do was n't it ? |