Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 4 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 5 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 6 | I can imagine his making love to me and it does n't disgust me . |
| 7 | and there 's a backing to it and it pumps it out into the room , they 're dead hot |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 10 | What use is revenge to me if it means the destruction of what life we have left ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |