Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 2 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 5 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 6 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 7 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 8 | I can imagine his making love to me and it does n't disgust me . |
| 9 | and there 's a backing to it and it pumps it out into the room , they 're dead hot |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 12 | What use is revenge to me if it means the destruction of what life we have left ? |
| 13 | The ability of an offeror under CA 1985 , s429 to require dissenting minority shareholders to sell their shares to it once it has obtained 90 per cent or more of the shares of the target company for which the offer was made . |
| 14 | She raised her tear-stained face to his and it seemed quite natural to place his lips on has , and since she seemed to welcome it , he kept them there . |
| 15 | Maeve Binchy 's Circle of Friends ( RC84 ; 3 hours approx ) , delightfully read by her actress cousin Kate Binchy , has an earthier scent to it as it follows the fortunes of three young Irish girls and their attendant young men through their first year as students at University College , Dublin . |