Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 2 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 3 | The £60,000 was finally invested in September 1992 and the income will now be sent to my mother as it arises . |
| 4 | Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability . |
| 5 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 6 | In addition , being a reputable society which alone among building societies is challenging the lawfulness of the demand , it understandably fears damage to its reputation if it does not pay . |
| 7 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 8 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 9 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 10 | In 1979 , the DUP received a major boost to its fortunes when it gained two more Westminster MPs . |
| 11 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 12 | It is significant that , although it would have cost very little , no wholesale replacement or improvement of the track took place , an indication of the company 's attitude to its creation once it had been completed . |
| 13 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 14 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 15 | Even if a Bombay or China voyage was as profitable as David Scott suggested , a vessel with excellent accommodation for passengers was likely to bring a greater reward to its commander if it went to Bengal , for the centre of government was the destination of many of the wealthier travellers . |
| 16 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 17 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 18 | Are individual Japanese so decidedly group orientated by cultural tradition or is it that ‘ in many cases they are loyal to their groups because it pays to be loyal ’ ( Befu 1977 p. 87 ) ? |
| 19 | He says he 's had not nearly enough sex education at school , he could n't talk to his parents about it and boys just do n't speak to their mates when it comes to something so intimate and private . |
| 20 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 21 | In 15 years the couple have added so many features and new plants to their garden that it bears no relation to the bare and treeless area they look over . |
| 22 | ‘ They are entitled to their opinion but it does n't help anyone . ’ |
| 23 | Though L4 of Nematodirus spp. apparently arrested in their development have been recorded at necropsy , there is no obvious seasonal pattern to their occurrence and it seems more likely that they have accumulated as a consequence of host resistance rather than hypobiosis . |
| 24 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |
| 25 | Perhaps the swing sends the blood rushing to his brain and it gets over-enriched and out of kilter . |
| 26 | Putting his shoulder to the door , he found to his amazement that it opened easily . |
| 27 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 28 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 29 | One fella were told they did his erm summat to his engine and it blew up did n't it ? |
| 30 | The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain . |