Example sentences of "to it [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |
| 2 | Environment is the soil and water that permits it to sprout and grow , or sees to it that it does n't . |
| 3 | The ability of an offeror under CA 1985 , s429 to require dissenting minority shareholders to sell their shares to it once it has obtained 90 per cent or more of the shares of the target company for which the offer was made . |
| 4 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you should see to it before it blows us all up , Nurse . ’ |
| 6 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 7 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 8 | Maeve Binchy 's Circle of Friends ( RC84 ; 3 hours approx ) , delightfully read by her actress cousin Kate Binchy , has an earthier scent to it as it follows the fortunes of three young Irish girls and their attendant young men through their first year as students at University College , Dublin . |
| 9 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 10 | You 'll get used to it and it does n't affect you |
| 11 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 12 | Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now . |
| 13 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 14 | Once again , having selected the fax as the print device , you ‘ print ’ to it and it asks you for the address details . |
| 15 | It 's there because you grew up with it and you 're exposed to it and it turns you on . ’ |
| 16 | and there 's a backing to it and it pumps it out into the room , they 're dead hot |
| 17 | You scramble on to it and it topples over ; you feel you will never learn the strange , simple secret . |
| 18 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 19 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 20 | Er yeah and I think people in the first term are quite attracted to it because it does n't seem to have much on the timetable erm |
| 21 | ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained . |
| 22 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 23 | More than that he was almost certainly looking forward to it because it meant going home to be with the Lord . |
| 24 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 25 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 26 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 27 | So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ? |