Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 Others likened it to fainting — a dead faint that switched off all the animal 's faculties .
3 The neighbour we sent it to died while it was on its way .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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