Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 2 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |
| 3 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 4 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 5 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 6 | He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand . |
| 7 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 8 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 9 | He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them . |
| 10 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 11 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 12 | you 're thinking long-term , yeah I can do this and then when it , a gentleman 's agreement and then it comes to paper , and when that paper 's signed you 're stuck with it |
| 13 | And then it occurred to Cardiff : ‘ Oh Christ . |
| 14 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 15 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 16 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 17 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
| 18 | The pupils concentrated on the science of light and colour , and how it related to art . |
| 19 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 20 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 21 | Some might be worrying about their dancing and how it looks to onlookers , others might be worried about their partner 's nervous shuffling from foot to foot — what will people be thinking ? |
| 22 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 23 | Birth spacing is sometimes used synonymously with birth timing ( see intervals ) , but usually it refers to efforts aiming to achieve the " proper " ( healthy , economic or convenient ) timing of births either consciously ( by planning and controlling the timing of births ) or in accordance with traditions ( by following customs relevant to breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence which assure the " proper " spacing ) , and the results of such efforts as they are manifested in the birth intervals . |
| 24 | But then it turned to mud — horrible stuff that sucked at my feet , and stank . |
| 25 | But then it occurred to Mungo that Mr Zamoyski 's position was not unlike his own . |