Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had read the article in The Independent and my response to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 4 | If I put my mind to it , you know ! |
| 5 | I must remind myself that fear and my submission to it is a statement of disbelief . |
| 6 | My reference to it was simply a tease , and all the more tempting given Victor 's known sensitivity on the point . |
| 7 | Anyway it drew my attention to it and I thought god god . |
| 8 | pay my attention to it , I look harder . |
| 9 | There was a small hole in the door , and I put my eye to it . |
| 10 | If I was a fish then I needed water and I had given up my right to it . |
| 11 | My reaction to it now is to take all the delays off and play with just the straight guitar — do something different ! ’ |
| 12 | As though my relationship to it dirtied me . |
| 13 | After he had gone I was standing in front of the fire , my back to it . |
| 14 | Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it . |
| 15 | But I must er be cagey in my answer to it . |
| 16 | They were playing music that was atmospheric and cinematic and all those things , so that was my introduction to it . ’ |
| 17 | I got my shoulder to it and heaved . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've seen my room and I can make my way to it if you 'll draw me a simple map ! ’ |
| 19 | I lay back and turned my face to it . |
| 20 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 21 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 22 | Between groups , categories , communities and societies there will be different mixes and levels of competences in dealing with the outside world which will inevitably affect their conceptualisation of it , the resources available to them , and their response to it . |
| 23 | The other causes lie in the readers alone : the habits of thought and feeling that they bring with them to the text , which distort or block their response to it . |
| 24 | Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it . |
| 25 | She thought that McAllister had never seen misery before , and that her response to it was a warm and loving one — and practical , too . |
| 26 | Bambi 's closed her mind to it . |
| 27 | Anna prided herself on setting a good table ; now , in wartime London , she put her mind to it : great lasagne pies , Virginia ham , as well as all the best fish , game and vegetables her friends in the country sent her . |
| 28 | Flavia gave her mind to it . |
| 29 | Susan put her mind to it , and tore up the City . |
| 30 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |