Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 2 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 3 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 4 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 5 | but it stretches from here to Ipswich and it stretches from here to the Norfolk border . |
| 6 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 7 | Yggdrasil ran the Tunney and Bishopric Conscriptions routinely , on a subconscious level , and did n't tie them in to Princetown until it cross-referenced with skimmer flightpaths and power outage in the west of England . |
| 8 | A MOUSE brought rush-hour chaos to Birmingham when it bit through wires in a traffic light control unit . |
| 9 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 10 | Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse |
| 11 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 12 | At some time Bracy Clark had lent £500 to Bond , and his widow , unable to discharge the debt , gave the skeleton to Clark and it remained in his study until shortly before his death . |