Example sentences of "to it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 2 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 3 | But I have n't given much thought to it at the moment . |
| 4 | In cases where both men and women have been regularly exposed to it at work , nitrous oxide has been linked to a high rate of miscarriages . |
| 5 | The former is a tenancy made by the agreement of the parties on the terms that either may put an end to it at any moment at the shortest notice ; the latter arises where a tenant whose interest has expired continues in possession without the landlord either assenting or dissenting . |
| 6 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 7 | There 's a disgusting dirty old man with a taste for corporal punishment ( ’ I was so used to it at Westminster School ’ ) and not one but two splendid fools . |
| 8 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 9 | By this means a government can ensure that part of the supply of foreign exchange is surrendered to it at a low price to be used to satisfy the demands of privileged groups , including itself , while the remainder is left for more or less free disposal by the recipient enterprises , either on an official market at a more favourable rate , or on a free or ‘ black ’ market . |
| 10 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 11 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 12 | The rest of us put our heads together to see if we could n't all manage to get to it at Staines in Middlesex . |
| 13 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 14 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 15 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 16 | Frigging around instead of facing up to where the bloody wife had gone and putting a stop to it at once . |
| 17 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 18 | ‘ If I saw any of my bowlers gouging the ball I would put a stop to it at once . ’ |
| 19 | And they wo n't be miming along to it at club PAs either . |
| 20 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 21 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 22 | It is difficult , I think , to overestimate the potential significance of this approach , and we will return to it at several points in this book . |
| 23 | I could n't get used to it at all . |
| 24 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 25 | … Now , in this case , it was agreed , that the defendant should quit at Candlemas ; and though the agreement is void as to the number of years for which the defendant was to hold , if the lessor chooses to determine the tenancy before the expiration of the seven years , he can only put an end to it at Candlemas . |
| 26 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 27 | Once the chart is complete , refer to it at least at meal-times , and any time you feel tempted to cheat ! |
| 28 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 29 | Did n't think anything to it at the time . |
| 30 | Got him to agree to it at last . |