Example sentences of "to it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind it , but within reach of stretching hands , stood a branching candlestand , also in wrought iron , with a box of matches in a brass holder attached to it with a chains and a tray containing a few small candles . |
| 2 | Well , people that I spoke to , spoken to from Cardiff , they they originally got involved because one of the lads used to work up in the factory , the chairman of their labour club , and after that I do n't , politically you know it started off completely non political , but after a while people latched on to it as a dispute that could be won , and you know that would be one up for the workers and the country . |
| 3 | Release 2 also provides performance improvements through an enhanced Virtual Memory Manager and asynchronous input-out put using the AIX/ESA Communications Server , which is claimed to enhance usability and performance for those connected to it via a channel or local network-attached RS/6000 . |
| 4 | It had a stub of pencil attached to it by a string and the paper list was grubby , most signatures illegible . |
| 5 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 7 | He ends up doing surgery on himself and takes his heart out , listens to it like a clock and throws it to the audience . |