Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just pretends to believe I 'm really after it to add to the stimulation of the game ! ’ |
| 2 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |
| 3 | There was a white wooden arrow sign below it pointing to the farmhouse , and that had HQ stencilled on it in Ministry of Defence style . |
| 4 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 5 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 6 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 7 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 8 | ‘ And he dreamed , and behold a ladder set up on the earth , and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it . ’ |
| 9 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 10 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 11 | A staggering quantity of it related to the Daleks , most of which was farmed out to Terry Nation or Raymond Cusick , but the four main characters got their share as well . |
| 12 | January was a month of intense political and diplomatic activity in Hong Kong , much of it related to constitutional developments ahead of the territory 's restoration to China in 1997 . |
| 13 | The lump is more or less intact , though crumbs of it stick to Perry 's fringe . |
| 14 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 15 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 16 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 17 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 18 | A large part of it goes to Japan . |
| 19 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 20 | It was a very small patch , about the size of a postage stamp , and the two sides of it seemed to be splitting down the middle and opening slowly outwards , like a pair of shutters on some tiny window . |
| 21 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 22 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
| 23 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
| 24 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 25 | Jones lists assets of $338,000 against debts of $1.6 million , most of it owed to the tax man . |
| 26 | Between 1970 and 1984 , Latin America 's foreign debt mushroomed from $21 billion to $360 billion , the bulk of it owed to Western banks . |
| 27 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |
| 28 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 29 | As a result much of it had to be stored in a continuously digesting system , so a large torso was needed . |
| 30 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |