Example sentences of "to it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it . |
| 2 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , it 's one of the things I wan na include in our discussion if we get round to it about having more resources available . |
| 4 | Divine intervention might also have allowed him two straightforward chances ; a top-edged hook off Ambrose when on 22 spiralled to long-leg where Walsh got both hands to it without holding onto it , and at 66 , two balls after the end of his 125- run second wicket partnership with Wessels , he edged Patrick Patterson and Williams made a hash of a regulation catch . |
| 5 | you know exactly which brand you want , you go right to it without dithering around |
| 6 | However , this can be a useful built-in safety factor , as it prevents those who are n't up to it from sailing in waves where they will be a danger to themselves and others . |
| 7 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 8 | If access to a package or module is denied to the user , the procedure attempts to gain access to it by supplying the password specified in ROOT_PACKAGE_REQUIRED . |
| 9 | If access to a module is denied to the user , the procedure attempts to gain access to it by supplying the password specified in ROOT_PACK . |
| 10 | If access to the module is denied to the user , the procedure attempts to gain access to it by supplying the password specified in MODULE . |
| 11 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 12 | Whether she responds to it by producing special kinds of eggs destined to be soldiers or whether the workers treat the existing larvae in a special way is not certain . |
| 13 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 14 | This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers . |
| 15 | She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart . |
| 16 | We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began , with the scientific revolution . |
| 17 | Each of the six main sections of the programme starts with a brief analysis of the situation , and then responds to it by proposing a series of study processes . |
| 18 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 19 | However , it would almost always be undesirable behaviour in any practical system ; presumably people reacted to it by saying ‘ something has gone wrong ’ and making adjustments to get rid of it . |
| 20 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 21 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 22 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 23 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 24 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 25 | He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it . |
| 26 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 27 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 28 | So we can get to it by going up this way . |
| 29 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 30 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |