Example sentences of "to it [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You carry on learning , and somewhere somebody knows the answer to it so you learn how they go the answer to it , and then perhaps later on you have a chance to have an opinion in science . |
| 2 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
| 3 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 4 | and , I meant to listen to it but I forgot |
| 5 | I says okay I 'll agree to it but I wan na se , I have n't seen it , so how do I know ? |
| 6 | Caroline had never grown used to it but she had learned to ignore it , even here , in Italy , where admiring a woman openly seemed almost a national pastime . |
| 7 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 8 | Let us lay down our terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy , see to it that we have our own international meetings . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’ |
| 10 | Years ago I had a class of very bright children and they did some really good projects , they were n't silly projects where they just scribble a bit an and draw some rubbish the they really worked and I saw to it that they produced really good work |
| 11 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 12 | She could see to it that they got ugly . |
| 13 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 14 | They grew big and strong and healthy , for he saw to it that they had all of the best , particularly in winter , and nothing to fear — except the running knot in the hedge-gap and the wood-path . |
| 15 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |
| 16 | See to it that they do . |
| 17 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 18 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |
| 19 | Oh , Luke saw to it that I got out before there was any real harm done , but … ’ |
| 20 | That 's the one for me because it 's so raunchy sounding and it 's got a real grit to it that I think is just fantastic . |
| 21 | When Eberhard Bethge produced Bonhoeffer 's volumes of papers , lectures and letters in a series of Collected Works in German , Hartwell saw to it that I reviewed each volume in The Bridge as soon as it arrived . |
| 22 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 23 | She would take lunch at Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead ( a 3 out of 5 in the Good Food Guide ) where Peter Herbert , its owner , would see to it that she had two poached eggs on Bovril toast and a good , old-fashioned pudding . |
| 24 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 25 | You would then have the right to organise her work and most certainly you would see to it that she had little or no large-animal work . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
| 27 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 28 | A child , after all , knows most of the game … it is only an attitude to it that he lacks . |
| 29 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 30 | Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them . |