Example sentences of "it to [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tesco 's have done it , Tesco 's he sell it to we buy it . |
| 2 | He could tell her that much , and he owed it to her to say something . |
| 3 | She was from that note if you have you sort of left it to her to organize the training ? |
| 4 | He pulled a crumpled letter out of his shirt pocket , opened it and handed it to her to read . |
| 5 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 6 | Perhaps perhaps her mother used to sing it to her did she ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 9 | The witchdoctor poured some milky medicine from a large bottle into a spoon and gave it to me to drink . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He stops short of handing it over himself , but gives it to me to give to her . |
| 12 | And she says , soon as she gets the money she 's gon na give it to me to give to yous . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Last year his parents gave it to me to restore . |
| 16 | They 'd raised £35 and sent it to me to put towards my conservation work . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 19 | If so , you can give it to me to keep clean and I can hand it to you when you want it . |
| 20 | She gives it to me look . |
| 21 | you , no they 're not putting their coats on , they 've gone to the toilet , Richard can go to the toilet by himself actually ca n't he ? he 's a clever boy is n't he ? can you get your coat for me ? , you get your coat now , I 'll put it on for you I hope you have n't broken that , have you ? , pick it up , carefully give it to me look |
| 22 | ‘ Karl Scholz bought most of the land and my father bought the house and the rest and gave it to me to run . |
| 23 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 24 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 25 | ‘ The ordinary people supported me before I was made WBC champion and I now owe it to them to let the public see me , ’ he said . |
| 26 | We owe it to them to ensure that their money is not squandered . |
| 27 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 28 | ‘ I agree , ’ Hari seemed ill at ease , ‘ I would like to help but I 'm all right here , I 've got people working for me , see I owe it to them to make a success of my own business . |
| 29 | The other area we that we explored in some depth was er whether the the library room could be combined to library or to library , but we 've left it to them to make a decision but they appear to have so decided that there is a mixed pattern emerged . |
| 30 | His captors keep one of his shoes to make sure he comes back , and return it to him filled with excrement . |