Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 2 | It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is . |
| 3 | Either it refers to behaviour which does not have to be learned or it refers to behaviour which has been so thoroughly learned that it can be done ‘ naturally ’ , ie without conscious thought and application . |
| 4 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 5 | Okay and let's say it comes to a third or it comes to two fifteenths . |
| 6 | Or it appears to us |
| 7 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 8 | Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear . |
| 9 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 10 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 12 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 13 | Tico , a winner from trap two last time ( 30.88 ) , wears the blue sheet again and it promises to be an exciting buckle between the pair . |
| 14 | The two men each have 19 points and it promises to be a very hard fought five-race series . |
| 15 | this Wednesday afternoon linking the East Midlands , and it promises to be something of a rather special afternoon this Afternoon Special because we have a very special guest , the legendary Adam Faith who 's appearing in Alfie , not until next March at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal , but he 's here to tell us all about the play and himself . |
| 16 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 17 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 18 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 19 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 20 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 21 | It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground . |
| 22 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 23 | And it fell to bits . |
| 24 | The ban is a serious infringement on the right to receive and impart information : it prevents representatives of lawful political organisations ( Sinn Fein has an MP as well as dozens of local councillors ) from stating their case on matters which have no connection with terrorism , and it denies to the public the opportunity to see and hear those who support violent action being questioned and exposed . |
| 25 | Indeed , withdrawal was undoubtedly the main method by which the decline in working class fertility was achieved , and it continued to be as common a method of birth control as the sheath in post-World War II Britain . |
| 26 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 27 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 28 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 29 | The policy became known under the slogan ‘ Wandel durch Annäherung ’ ( encouraging change through rapprochement ) and it led to huge financial subsidies to one of the most brutal regimes in Europe , considerably increasing the standard of living in East Germany and thus legitimising the absurd claims of Honecker and Ulbricht to have created ‘ real existing socialism ’ . |
| 30 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |