Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Adis who appeared before news cameras at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford earlier this week was transferred to Stoke Mandeville because it houses the national spinal injuries centre .
2 Africa was always nasty to Miss Mates because it had maimed and nearly killed her treasure .
3 The offer to back BAe if it changed Rover 's corporate plan followed agreement by Lord Young to the £38 million package and further pressure from Professor Smith .
4 The range of opinions expressed by nobles on the provincial committees made plain to St Petersburg that it had to act alone .
5 Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World .
6 WAD general secretary Margaret Williams , said : ‘ At present , a lot of disabled people are unable to go to Grange Road because it involves too much walking .
7 PC Blenkinsop noted Nurse Walton 's reaction to Michael Ryan and it annoyed him .
8 The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him .
9 This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities .
10 There still exists today a Northern Ireland Assembly , but its main function is as a scrutiny body for Westminster legislation applying to Northern Ireland and it lacks executive powers .
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