Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 2 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 3 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 4 | If it came to court today Armstrong would not be convicted . |
| 5 | His natural musical imagination silenced any lingering doubts , and when it came to music expressly written for the instrument — a brilliant showpiece sonata by the American , Paul Creston ; a new work commissioned from the young Irishman , Kevin O'Connell ; and Dave Heath 's vigorous fantasy , Rumania — McChrystal could not have been more persuasive , brilliantly supported by his accompanist , Kathryn Lenahan . |
| 6 | It seemed to Jane very fitting that he should come from Cleethorpes . |
| 7 | But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything . |
| 8 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | She sounded tired but , though her breathing was laboured and painful it seemed to Creggan now that her voice was the only friendly thing left in his world . |
| 11 | It was certainly hard to see much in her parents ' relationship ; it seemed to Caro now a sad empty thing . |
| 12 | However , it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down . |
| 13 | it began to pulse again , ticking away |
| 14 | As they reached the outer suburbs it began to drizzle slightly and Preston switched the wipers on . |
| 15 | It looked to Dot more like a skeleton in clothes than a father . |
| 16 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |
| 17 | Even more embarrassingly for the struggling bank , it had to fork out a further $2.4m to end the agreement . |