Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] to [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Send away the ark of the God of Israel , ’ the people cry , ‘ and let it return to its own place , that it may not slay us and our people ’ ( 5.11 ) . |
| 2 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 3 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 4 | There lies the genuine stake today , in this underhand , inescapable confrontation between the silent majority and the social imposed on them , in this hypersimulation reduplicating simulation and exterminating it according to its own logic — not in any class struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities . |
| 5 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 6 | After you 'd been erm in daily discussions w with the management , when did it occur to you that things w just not gon na happen ? |
| 7 | And when you 're starting to talk like that , everyone is discussing it according to their own experience or the last lesson they taught when this came up . |
| 8 | ‘ We had it built to our own specifications , ’ said Mrs Molesworth . |
| 9 | Never once had it occurred to her that being a waitress might be hard . |