Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 2 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 3 | Long before er it got to Oldfield Speedy was offside . |
| 4 | Rhodes Music Radio ( RMR ) became the first campus radio station to broadcast live , when it transmitted to Grahamstown during the Standard Bank National Festival in July . |
| 5 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |
| 6 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 7 | ‘ Maria Callas No. 4 ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 47 , est. $200–250,000 ) , an explosive abstract composition painted by Julian Schnabel on a large sheet of dark red velvet in 1982 , shared an auction record for the artist 's work when it sold to New York property developer , Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda , for $290,000 ( £161,100 ) . |
| 8 | Estimated at £5,000–8,000 it sold to Danny Katz for £34,000 ( $54,400 ) . |
| 9 | When he came to , the doctor who performed it admitted to Dustin that he might have choked to death had he undergone it the night before . |
| 10 | It led to Nicholas Ridley 's removal from the Environment department in July 1989 , in favour of the notoriously ‘ wet ’ Chris Patten . |
| 11 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 12 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 14 | then it changed to Tommy 's |
| 15 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 16 | It moved to Bradford on 8 May and then to Dorchester , Workington , Peebles and Hawick . |
| 17 | The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry . |
| 18 | He was recalled to GC & CS when it moved to Bletchley in 1939 . |
| 19 | It contributed to D'Arcy 's increasingly bad mood as he scoured the city in his search for the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 20 | It omitted to mention how much of its ever-increasing charges it contributed to WaterAid . |
| 21 | You think it contributed to Edward Pitt 's state of mind ? ’ |
| 22 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 23 | The child could not decide whever he wanted a chocolate bar or a scoop of ice cream : it occurred to Nelson to combine the two . |
| 24 | It was n't until Thursday that it occurred to Loretta that if she was going near Oxford , she might as well call in on Bridget . |
| 25 | As she led the way upstairs to her flat , it occurred to Loretta that she was feeling slightly light-headed . |
| 26 | And then it occurred to Cardiff : ‘ Oh Christ . |
| 27 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 28 | It occurred to Matt that this was the third time in about twelve hours that a woman had done that . |
| 29 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 30 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |