Example sentences of "[vb infin] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanza hesitates , we do n't jump to it , the stops are so brief , the stations look so dark . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll tell you what to do , and you 'll jump to it ; or else ! ’ |
| 3 | When the House of Lords reconsidered Lord Rawdon 's bill in March the next year they were told that , if they would assent to it , in a short time all debtors ' prisons would become the residence of swindlers only . |
| 4 | In Britain , most people with an informed opinion would assent to it enthusiastically . |
| 5 | It the statement is taken in this way , a hearer should assent to it only if he believes that I have the belief . |
| 6 | That celebrated sage , the man on the Clapham omnibus , would no doubt readily assent to it . |
| 7 | Rozanov : ‘ It is unusual , but I do n't object to it . ’ |
| 8 | The first point is undeniable , and few field workers and even fewer researchers would object to it a priori ( though its applicability may be complicated by the dynamic development of a project ) . |
| 9 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 10 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , did not object to it being raised here ; but he observed that we have no evidence from the department on the topic . |
| 11 | mores or whatever , that that would object to it . |
| 12 | She did not object to it . |
| 13 | We could walk round to the stables , if you do not object to it — I can vouch for it that the grass is not wet — and then perhaps Miss Araminta will not hear as the horses will not come to the front door . ’ |
| 14 | A £3 charge for cycle carriage is reasonable if the journey is of some length and I do n't object to it on , say , the Edinburgh-London route . |
| 15 | A £3 charge for cycle carriage is reasonable if the journey is of some length and I do n't object to it on , say , the Edinburgh-London route . |
| 16 | I do n't object to it at all . |
| 17 | Some people might object to it . |
| 18 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 19 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 20 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 21 | I could n't dance to it . |
| 22 | I could n't dance to it . |
| 23 | Morrissey can be a bit of a misery but you can always dance to it . |
| 24 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 25 | Do n't speak to it . |
| 26 | ’ Maybe I could speak to it — say , ‘ Do what ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Shall I speak to it ? ’ thought Alice . |
| 28 | If she were the thunder , she thought , she would never speak to it again . |
| 29 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 30 | That person may bring to it their own considerable skills and preferences but may have become inflexible and may have defined the job by their own way of doing it . |