Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] it to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut rigs a fishing line and offers it to me . |
| 2 | It clutches the note , screws it up and holds it to its greasy black coat . |
| 3 | By combining a fuller investigation of a text 's history with an awareness of new theoretical investigations into the structures of both culture and discourse , New Historicism has directly confronted the problem of how literature ‘ says something of something and says it to somebody ’ ( to recall Geertz 's formulation ) . |
| 4 | Right now she 's carrying around a soft hand puppet , and takes it to her basket each night . |
| 5 | Holding this in front of him , he cautiously approaches the female and presents it to her . |
| 6 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 7 | The significance of this proposition is that it provides the basis for a theory of literary or poetic meaning which both distinguishes this meaning from the external world and relates it to it . |
| 8 | This lets off grandad who makes grandson John a toy and gives it to him for Christmas . |
| 9 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 10 | Sticks it in the cup , goes and gives it to him , he goes , thank you . |
| 11 | Lucker pulls the ring pull and extends it to him . |
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| 13 | He stops short of handing it over himself , but gives it to me to give to her . |