Example sentences of "to it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he added a fatal dose of your ethylene stuff to it and put it back on the carving rest … ’ |
| 2 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 3 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 4 | Society reacted to it , the organs of law reacted to it and eventually but not as a result of direct cause and effect — it is something more subtle than that — it went out of fashion . |
| 5 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 6 | It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known . |
| 7 | I retreated to leave the master to it and lay happily in the sun . |
| 8 | Tony set up his tripod in a snow drift and started to contemplate a shot , so we left him to it and visited the town 's Polar Museum . |
| 9 | Each year the time devoted to it and the importance attached to it , especially on television , seems to increase . |
| 10 | And then the next lot of lights sucks me to it and I just slide down the street . |
| 11 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 12 | In an article of 1847 in its journal , The Ecclesiologist , the society advocated a separate roof for the school-room and the headmaster 's house with the classroom set at right-angles to it and a lean-to cloakroom . |
| 13 | So after a brief visit to Balmoral in the summer , Diana soon established a pattern of leaving Charles to it and returning to London and her friends . |
| 14 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 15 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 16 | That 's really all there was to it and Tony DeFries became his manager . |
| 17 | McLeish left them to it and walked away to consider exactly where he was . |
| 18 | I left them to it and went up into my tree-house . |
| 19 | It also has a genuinely modern feel to it and boasts a gearbox with a mind-boggling 72 gears ( 36 forward + 36 reverse ) . |
| 20 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 21 | Everybody has access to it and politicians ignore it only if they are thick or arrogant . |
| 22 | ‘ I like everyone on the crew and the cast have been amazed at the reaction to it and the way that people have tried to analyse it . |
| 23 | However hard I work and struggle for the future there are ever snares to catch me and sometimes I see no end to it and think myself doomed to pass my days in toil and nothing else . |
| 24 | Jackie motioned to them to help him and all three put their shoulders to it and pushed . |
| 25 | The bank gave consideration to all matters relating to the company in question 's affairs that were known to it and there was no onus on us to make inquiries outside . |
| 26 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 27 | You scramble on to it and it topples over ; you feel you will never learn the strange , simple secret . |
| 28 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 29 | As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 30 | Each one had a spiral staircase the length of a lighthouse leading up to it and at the top lived a teacher . |