Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " 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 | Well I put me clothes out at twelve o'clock , I says to Linda if it holds out for a couple |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 13 | Okay and it does n't stop anywhere it 's going all the way up to Scotland before it stops . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and there 's less chance of them getting lost because if we send it over to Monkland and it comes back here , it goes to Doctor , you know how he 's all over the place , |
| 16 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 19 | ‘ Obviously I 'm hopeful of getting to Sweden and it 's been great to be involved with the England squad . ’ |
| 20 | but it stretches from here to Ipswich and it stretches from here to the Norfolk border . |
| 21 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 22 | She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 25 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A MOUSE brought rush-hour chaos to Birmingham when it bit through wires in a traffic light control unit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What happened to Italy when it decided to move from the wide band to the narrow band within the ERM ? |