Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is precisely how Dicey viewed Parliament and expected it to act . |
| 2 | ( 1981 , 1983 ) believed that the greenhouse warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century , and expected it to become noticeable during the 1980s . |
| 3 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 5 | ‘ Really opened your heart and mind and asked it to come in ? ’ |
| 6 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 7 | Dean Witter , however , read the story , called Intel and got it to admit that such is the case . |
| 8 | Grove did n't say anything about Pentium supplies , but last week , a Dean Witter analyst called Intel and got it to admit that customers for the chip will be on severe allocation . |
| 9 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 10 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 11 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 12 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 13 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 14 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 15 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 16 | I removed my hand gently , and used it to lift my glass of tea . |
| 17 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 18 | She found a glowing ember and used it to close her wounds , then forced herself to stand . |
| 19 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 20 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 21 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 22 | The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes . |
| 23 | the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the |
| 24 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 25 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 26 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 27 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 28 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 29 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |
| 30 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |