Example sentences of "and it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 3 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 4 | Tico , a winner from trap two last time ( 30.88 ) , wears the blue sheet again and it promises to be an exciting buckle between the pair . |
| 5 | The two men each have 19 points and it promises to be a very hard fought five-race series . |
| 6 | this Wednesday afternoon linking the East Midlands , and it promises to be something of a rather special afternoon this Afternoon Special because we have a very special guest , the legendary Adam Faith who 's appearing in Alfie , not until next March at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal , but he 's here to tell us all about the play and himself . |
| 7 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 8 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 9 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 10 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 11 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 12 | It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground . |
| 13 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 14 | And it fell to bits . |
| 15 | The ban is a serious infringement on the right to receive and impart information : it prevents representatives of lawful political organisations ( Sinn Fein has an MP as well as dozens of local councillors ) from stating their case on matters which have no connection with terrorism , and it denies to the public the opportunity to see and hear those who support violent action being questioned and exposed . |
| 16 | Indeed , withdrawal was undoubtedly the main method by which the decline in working class fertility was achieved , and it continued to be as common a method of birth control as the sheath in post-World War II Britain . |
| 17 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 18 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 19 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 20 | The policy became known under the slogan ‘ Wandel durch Annäherung ’ ( encouraging change through rapprochement ) and it led to huge financial subsidies to one of the most brutal regimes in Europe , considerably increasing the standard of living in East Germany and thus legitimising the absurd claims of Honecker and Ulbricht to have created ‘ real existing socialism ’ . |
| 21 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 22 | This she loved , and it led to her , Dad and Shadwell going to dinners and parties with all kinds of ( fairly ) important people — not the sort we knew in the suburbs , but the real thing : people who really did write and direct plays and not just talk about it . |
| 23 | The Gay News Defence Campaign may not have won the case for the paper , but it helped the community maintain a sense of strength and it led to the setting up of the Gay Activists Alliance . |
| 24 | Mention travel , and it led to a woman travelling alone ; lending a novel , to a circular room full of books — there was that underswell . |
| 25 | This was broadly speaking the approach adopted in Chapter 2 , and it led to a model which located each discipline somewhere in a three-dimensional space , defined by its object , stance and mode , all of which may vary over time . |
| 26 | It was a huge success , stage and film versions were made of it , and it led to thousands of unwilling boys being dressed in black velvet suits . |
| 27 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 28 | Other regions of Scotland were to follow that lead and it led to the formation of the the Scottish Golf Union which , today , has 16 member areas . |
| 29 | That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him . |
| 30 | There was still a little awe in her wide grey eyes and it added to the astonishingly innocent look that intrigued everyone . |