Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 2 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 3 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 4 | Venners , the ‘ Son of Fred ’ to quote the title of his autobiography , came from a council estate in Dagenham or Corned Beef City as he and his street-pals irreverently called it to taste fame , fortune and hero-worship . |
| 5 | Last week 's election result , however , has obviously caused it to reconsider . |
| 6 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 7 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 8 | Grandad Terry Potter had only just installed it to stop Adam 's bids to get into the street at Barnsley , South Yorks . |
| 9 | The astonishing image manipulation routines will have you drawing until the early hours , we have already used it to manipulate some of the pictures shown in this section . |
| 10 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 11 | By the late 16th Century the term was restricted in use to Londoners , who themselves further confined it to mean those born within earshot of Bow Bells . |
| 12 | You 've still got it to pay as soon as you get it . |
| 13 | I hope I 've still got it to come . |
| 14 | Many announcements made by the Home Secretary are moving in the way that I have always wanted it to move , and I believe that er , in Wiltshire this will have a very positive effect . |
| 15 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 16 | Many of the smaller farmers continued to live therefore in the ancestral homestead on the village street , but carried out no repairs to it and gradually allowed it to decay . |
| 17 | THE threat of higher taxes in next week 's Budget gave the stock market a severe panic attack this week , when the FT-SE 100-Share Index was within 20 points of the 3,000 line , which the bulls had confidently expected it to reach by Budget Day . |
| 18 | But they had never before known it to come near the Namoi . |
| 19 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 20 | The wine — had she really allowed it to dim all her common sense , lull her into a false sense of security ? |
| 21 | We have simply asked it to agree not to rake over the events of the past and to join us in making it clear these events are behind us . ’ |
| 22 | Although I have earlier granted it to simplify matters ( p. 21 ) , premiss ( 1 ) is not nearly so firm as an objector might like . |
| 23 | The era of the Prison Commission was by no means the golden age that nostalgia sometimes portrayed it to have been , but the verdict must be that its abolition magnified rather than minimized the deepening crisis into which the Prison Service was falling . |
| 24 | Some eminent wine-makers have since nurtured it to produce distinctive wines on its own — leathery , creamy and spicy , with a soft slick of redcurrant jelly . |
| 25 | It merely said that the president had never told it to question Kenya 's one-party system . |
| 26 | never used it to kick , lord no yes that 's lovely , now we can organise our day , right , thank you very much indeed , right thanks a lot , bye , bye . |
| 27 | Never known it to go off before . |
| 28 | No I 've never known it to go off before either . |
| 29 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 30 | " But I 've never known it to fail " |