Example sentences of "[prep] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 2 | None the less , large sums of public money are still being spent on drainage , much of it to improve farmland . |
| 3 | She wondered how much he had witnessed , then realised he must have seen , and heard , most of it to order Paul Fisher to be carpeted , without suggesting Mr Drewer get her side of it . |
| 4 | Ah , you got ta go past it to collect wages . |
| 5 | The form most frequently found is the barn with lean-tos built against it to provide cow-houses , stables or cart-shed . |
| 6 | The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others . |
| 7 | If you want to do some writing with it to explain earth rotates half way in twelve hours that 's up to you . |
| 8 | In a short speech of thanks , Bill told us that he was ‘ heading on down ’ to a DIY megastore with it to purchase drills , saws and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements which is his first project in retirement . |
| 9 | Silane , SiH4 is injected into the active nitrogen stream , and reacts with it to produce SiH . |
| 10 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 11 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 12 | I think what it is is that I feel if I go into something for the sake of going into it to earn money I shall be absolutely bored with me life . |
| 13 | It ran across my chest , and over my shoulder , and I leaned into it to gain control . |
| 14 | A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week . |
| 15 | The elaboration and detail of the scheme and the variety of techniques available under it to protect investors suggests that it would be wrong to assume that the statute and its rulemaking powers should be interpreted as being in the shadow of the common law . |
| 16 | I had inquired about the ownership of the south bank of the River Almond , along the perimeter of the airport , and about the possibility of making a cycle path along it to link Turnhouse village with Carlowrie , and thus provide a relatively safe route from Edinburgh to West Lothian , basically following the route of the old A9 . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was not possible , in construing the expression ‘ any person ’ in section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , to identify any particular limitation which could be said to represent the presumed intention of Parliament in enacting the legislation , and the words had to be given their literal meaning , unrestricted as to persons or territory ; and that the court , therefore , had jurisdiction under section 238 to make an order against a foreigner resident abroad ; that , having regard to the unambiguous terminology of rule 12.12(1) of the Insolvency Rules 1986 , the jurisdiction deriving from it to order service out of the jurisdiction was not to be confined , by analogy , to cases falling within R.S.C. , Ord. 11 , r. 1(1) ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order would be set aside and the registrar 's order restored ( post , pp. 701A–D , 702E–F , 704C–D , G , H , 705B ) . |
| 18 | Using the Microphone : Do n't get too close , you need to be about 9 ’ away from it to avoid distortion . |
| 19 | They have room within it to welcome strangers and make them friends . |
| 20 | While a member of the Ba'ath Party , Saddam manoeuvred within it to gain control , and had no qualms about his methods . |
| 21 | ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records . |
| 22 | She had one made out of ice … with ROOMS in it to keep prisoners in . |
| 23 | In other words , it 's not an employment location , it is primarily a residential new settlement development which has some employment in it to satisfy employment needs of those who live there . |
| 24 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 25 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 26 | While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy . |
| 27 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 28 | If now we postmultiply the ( 3 × 2 ) submatrix of A by I , we can add the last result to it to recover A as the matrix product unc Finally , a matrix of rank 1 can be expressed as the product of a column and a row in that order — for such a matrix has effectively only one independent column , all the other columns being proportional to it ; similarly for the rows . |
| 29 | And we also did a bit of leather work to , where we used to hammer the the leather and put colours on to it to make purses and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | In practice , it has been extremely rare for the Lords to use even such powers as remain to it to reject Commons Bills . |