Example sentences of "it to [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tesco 's have done it , Tesco 's he sell it to we buy it . |
| 2 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 3 | Generally ABC and Scritti 's ideas — that rock music is finished , and only black music is a viable vehicle for intelligence ; that if you believe in what you do you owe it to yourself to dive headfirst into the mainstream — still exert something verging on hegemony . |
| 4 | You owe it to yourself to behave properly , not to me . ’ |
| 5 | For health insurance reasons you owe it to yourself to take care of your one and only body — your working machine . |
| 6 | ‘ You owe it to yourself to help us to help you . |
| 7 | You owe it to yourself to get fit … |
| 8 | You owe it to yourself to extract yourself from your present situation and reassess your life . |
| 9 | So much is at stake when you start a job that you owe it to yourself to think all the implications through . |
| 10 | ‘ It is , but even the most hard-pressed executive owes it to himself to relax occasionally and give himself some space . ’ |
| 11 | Then say this one should recover his losses , and that he owes it to himself to let us at least do that for him . |
| 12 | Do I owe it to myself to finish ? |
| 13 | Having got that near to international cricket I owed it to myself to try again . ’ |
| 14 | Well , how about a memo about it to somebody saying can they suggest a potential person , you know . |
| 15 | He could tell her that much , and he owed it to her to say something . |
| 16 | She was from that note if you have you sort of left it to her to organize the training ? |
| 17 | He pulled a crumpled letter out of his shirt pocket , opened it and handed it to her to read . |
| 18 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 19 | Perhaps perhaps her mother used to sing it to her did she ? |
| 20 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 21 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 22 | The witchdoctor poured some milky medicine from a large bottle into a spoon and gave it to me to drink . |
| 23 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 24 | He stops short of handing it over himself , but gives it to me to give to her . |
| 25 | And she says , soon as she gets the money she 's gon na give it to me to give to yous . |
| 26 | Tomorrow , are you going to give it to Mr or do you want to give it to me to give to him or whatever suits you |
| 27 | Just leave it to me said Mr Grover I think between us and with the help of some of our friends in the market we shall be able to give everybody a Christmas to remember . |
| 28 | Last year his parents gave it to me to restore . |
| 29 | They 'd raised £35 and sent it to me to put towards my conservation work . |
| 30 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |