Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 3 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 4 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 5 | Left alone with Carrie , Joe sat watching her pour the boiling water into the earthenware teapot , and after bringing it to the table and setting it on a stand , she smiled at him and said softly , ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 6 | After tying it to the mizzen-mast , he did not investigate further . |
| 7 | That is now the task of the Chief of Defence Staff and his Central Staff , who are responsible for formulating national military strategy , and for expressing it to the government of the day and within the Whitehall market-place . |
| 8 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 9 | Whether the reader disagrees with that message or not , Eliot can not be accused of suddenly presenting it or of bringing it to the fore simply because of his Christian faith . |
| 10 | For my part , I promise you I will continue at all times to have this possibility in mind , and to take every opportunity of bringing it to the minds of those who can best move in the matter . |
| 11 | Despite the difficulties of relating it to the archaeology , Bede 's statement about the origins of the Germanic settlers in England is generally accepted . |
| 12 | Erm , we started off with was that , erm , we would just write down any word that came up to our head , in terms of relating it to the story i.e. we thought about memories , and memories Erm , this is gon na match up with your is n't it . |
| 13 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 14 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 16 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 17 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ And , believe me , I shall make a point of reporting it to the hotel manager without delay . ’ |
| 19 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 21 | He anticipates that the campaign will snowball and , depending on the results , he is considering taking it to the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 23 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 24 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |
| 25 | He 's not the only one — but he made the mistake of telling it to the Washington Post . |
| 26 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 27 | This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters . |
| 28 | William Morton Pitt of Kingston Maurwood , MP for Dorset and a relative of the two famous Prime Ministers ‘ impressed with the beauty of the situation of Swanwich and the salubrity of its climate , and finding the shore of smooth fine sand to be admirably adapted for sea bathing , first conceived the idea of raising it to the condition of a watering place ’ . |
| 29 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 30 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |