Example sentences of "to [pron] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 2 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 3 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 4 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 5 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 6 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 7 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 8 | Compassion came less easily to her than it did to her husband . |
| 9 | Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns . |
| 10 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 11 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
| 12 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 13 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 14 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 15 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 16 | ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 18 | More than that he was almost certainly looking forward to it because it meant going home to be with the Lord . |
| 19 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 20 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |