Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 2 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 3 | It led to her initial guest appearances in Coronation Street and to the offer of a major role in the film Yanks which Street commitments forced her to turn down . |
| 4 | It led to their first quarrel . |
| 5 | Where did the idea come from and how did it relate to their developing interests , understandings and skills ? |
| 6 | What a difference it made to his whole face . |
| 7 | It corresponds to our classical intuition , and everyday experience , of how particles behave . |
| 8 | It moved to its present site in 1879 . |
| 9 | The brightest point for the capital has been the performance of the Traverse since it moved to its new £3.4 million home close to the Lyceum and Usher Hall . |
| 10 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 11 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 12 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
| 13 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 14 | It referred to her earlier pregnancy termination as a reason for her wanting to go away — yet Mark would have known nothing about it , said the prosecution . |
| 15 | It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries . |
| 16 | Dudley Clarke went on the raid as an observer ; no doubt it appealed to his swash-buckling sense of adventure . |
| 17 | When she was attacked by her venerable predecessor Harold Macmillan ( now elevated to the Lords as the Earl of Stockton ) for ‘ selling off the family silver ’ , it added to her proud sense of detachment . |
| 18 | It added to our dismal record in the sprint relay in the European Cup . |
| 19 | But because most of the LDC 's exports were primary products sold in open , competitive markets , and because when it came to their nascent manufacturing industries they were in hot competition with each other , these concessions brought little benefit . |
| 20 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 22 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 23 | Karl was not unintelligent when it came to his own interests , his own career . |
| 24 | When it came to his own treatment by this doctor , he was surprised to find him more abrupt than gentle . |
| 25 | Mr Prior has been involved in planning new kitchens while working in major restaurants and hotel groups , so he decided to use all his experience when it came to his own establishment . |
| 26 | It came to our last school trip . |
| 27 | When it came to my fortieth birthday she said , what would you like for your birthday ? |
| 28 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 29 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 30 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |