Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 2 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 3 | The charity organisation assessed the hospital 's needs on its last visit to Romania when it took out over 30 tons of relief aid on three articulated lorries . |
| 4 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 5 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 6 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 7 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 8 | I admit to having been a bit sceptical beforehand about this year 's family holiday to Florida but it turned out to be a huge success , not least on account of the terrific food and service we encountered everywhere . |
| 9 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 10 | The Town Development Act , 1952 , did not apply to Scotland and it became necessary to cope with Glasgow 's housing problem by means of a second New Town . |
| 11 | The other part questioned whether in fact she really did want to get engaged to Harry if it meant leading a dreary life waiting for him to make his way in the world . |
| 12 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 13 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 14 | Although the man moved quickly the moment was so vivid to Marian that it seemed to her as though time had frozen and become an icicle of stillness . |
| 15 | Yggdrasil ran the Tunney and Bishopric Conscriptions routinely , on a subconscious level , and did n't tie them in to Princetown until it cross-referenced with skimmer flightpaths and power outage in the west of England . |
| 16 | A MOUSE brought rush-hour chaos to Birmingham when it bit through wires in a traffic light control unit . |
| 17 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 18 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |
| 19 | What happened to Italy when it decided to move from the wide band to the narrow band within the ERM ? |
| 20 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 21 | That was at Newcastle , where he faded to be fourth to Mazmoor but it turned out that he had hit a hurdle or two and cut his legs badly . |
| 22 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 23 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 24 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 25 | The denial was less than helpful to London as it excluded only one specific army unit . |
| 26 | She was glad that she was going to Rome as it brought their relationship to an end , cleanly and conclusively . |
| 27 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 28 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 29 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 30 | At some time Bracy Clark had lent £500 to Bond , and his widow , unable to discharge the debt , gave the skeleton to Clark and it remained in his study until shortly before his death . |