Example sentences of "it to [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 2 | The carefully designed tasks , which are a feature of all the books , challenge the practising teacher to reflect on the information in the text and apply it to their own knowledge and experience of teaching . |
| 3 | Not yet a month old and apparently there is concern in some quarters of the industry that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp ( Sun Microsystems Inc to a lesser extent ) may kidnap the promised platform and twist it to their own advantage . |
| 4 | Not yet a month old and apparently there is concern in some quarters of the industry that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp ( Sun Microsystems Inc to a lesser extent ) may kidnap the promised system and twist it to their own advantage . |
| 5 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 6 | The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers . |
| 7 | Women do often partially reject or filter knowledge , or even use it to their own advantage . |
| 8 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 9 | But it is subject to manipulation by politicians who use it to their own advantage . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , contemporaries were well aware that a potentially important new force was at work and governments were anxious to use it to their own advantage . |
| 11 | The builders move into the valley and adapt it to their own needs . |
| 12 | Daily visits to East Oxford soon restored it to its former glory . |
| 13 | They spent an additional £45,000 on renovating it — although the beacon needs more work to restore it to its former glory . |
| 14 | Others , unable to bear the grief , swore to remain in their homeland and rebuild it to its former glory . |
| 15 | As Gramsci points out ( 1971 : 260 ) , ‘ the bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in continuous movement , capable of absorbing the whole society , assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level ’ , and this would-be universalizing push provides one of the most important elements in music history of the last two hundred years . |
| 16 | Vivienne , who had felt The Waste Land to be a part of herself , saw ‘ The Hollow Men ’ as a fitting follow-on , and related it to her own nightmares . |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry to be late , ’ she told Jimmy when she made it to her own office . |
| 18 | Then , deciding to turn it to her own advantage , she said coldly , ‘ I do n't know , but I think Joanna would be foolish to trust a man who is your friend . ’ |
| 19 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 20 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 21 | You can give it to her this evening , just before you set out . |
| 22 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 23 | Mike wrote his own letter but showed it to me all the same . |
| 24 | You can deny it to me all you like — I just hope you 're not trying to deny it to yourself . ’ |
| 25 | Do n't show it , do n't show it to them all . |
| 26 | I showed it to you this morning Ian . |
| 27 | LOOK , I 'll put it to you this way , in the hope you 'll understand . |
| 28 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 29 | I 'm not attaching it to you this time at all |
| 30 | To put it another way , he was aware of the idea of divided consciousness , much discussed in his day , and here and elsewhere he can be seen applying it to his own actions . |