Example sentences of "[verb] it to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 3 | Although it was once thought only Confucian scholars could outwit a kuei , a deterrent popular amongst all Chinese is to set it to solving a riddle . |
| 4 | Its rules restrict it to lending on property which encourages self-sufficiency , the ecologically efficient use of land and the saving of non-renewable resources . |
| 5 | Others likened it to fainting — a dead faint that switched off all the animal 's faculties . |
| 6 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 7 | Jitters had his gun back , with just one bloody buggering round left in it , so he would jolly well have to put it to freaking good use , would n't he , by jove . |
| 8 | Set it to figging explode ! ’ ) |
| 9 | The leadership of the Polish Communist Party has this week approved changes committing it to altering its name and participating in free elections within a multi-party system . |
| 10 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 11 | And why not serve it to breakfasting passengers on airlines as the top people 's alternative to the cornflake packet . |
| 12 | Prime Computer Inc said it is continuing to weigh various capitalisation schemes , ‘ including capital market transactions ’ but would not confirm a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is in the midst of talks that would lead it to going public again , Reuter reports from Boston . |
| 13 | The neighbour we sent it to died while it was on its way . |
| 14 | You can liken it to sticking you hand out of a moiving car . |
| 15 | Erm , when the Bullitt family sought it to published it , it was published , but by that time , the kind of changes that I talked about at the beginning of my lectures , had already occurred in psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | You can fill it to overflowing with dried or gilded flowers and leaves or put some damp oasis inside the cone and use fresh holly , ivy or mistletoe . |
| 17 | The word ‘ patronymic ’ is sometimes used as an easy synonym when referring to any surname , but its meaning is more limited than that , for a proper application restricts it to describing those names descending from fathers or ancestors . |
| 18 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 19 | However , to entrap our pub tradition within a rigid set of rules and guidelines is at best to condemn it to becoming an anachronism , if not to extinguish it altogether . |
| 20 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 21 | ‘ Nuclear Electric should keep the money for the purpose it is intended , not divert it to building another uneconomic , unsafe and unwanted power station , ’ he added . |
| 22 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |