Example sentences of "[prep] it [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with a modest advance of £6,000 to James I in 1613 , his formal loans culminated in his truly massive advances of the war years 1624–9 , amounting to more than £127,000 , much of it to finance English and foreign military operations ; not to mention the £55,000 which he and the Russia Company magnate Sir Ralph Freeman advanced in 1624 . |
| 2 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 3 | I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard . |
| 4 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 5 | She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings . |
| 6 | One common source of fumes is the foam-backing on carpets — this tends to break down due to constant wear , and formaldehyde ( see above ) may interact with it to produce toxic airborne chemicals that can irritate the airways causing symptoms similar to bronchitis . |
| 7 | Yes , binge , they put it with it to stay skinny |
| 8 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 9 | A man never thinks , when he undertakes one journey , that he may not return from it to contemplate another . |
| 10 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 11 | On Tarvaras there were several subject races who spoke a variation of it — perhaps because they were descended from Second Empire colonists — and suddenly Alexei found that there was insufficient subtlety in it to convey precise nuance . |
| 12 | all green , all green along there I wonder I was just thinking it 's got all the bits in it to make that other one go |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 15 | Ask yourself about the current African political scene and read round it to find interesting parallels , since Mageeba represents a mixture of the kind of African leadership to be found . |
| 16 | The eldest brother was lying under the tree , keeping guard over it to make sure nobody stole the fruit , while the other two took some pears to market . |
| 17 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |
| 18 | The other types of symbols are equally internalized by society 's members , and as this is not part of Freud 's theory , Parsons suggests modifications to it to incorporate these types of symbols also . |
| 19 | According to SunSelect , the Windows Sockets applications programming interface will en-able Windows applications written to it to run unmodified over any TCP/IP network . |
| 20 | It will be seen that where Lautro is advised to serve or is considering the service of an intervention notice on a member , the rules do not place any obligation on it to give that member any advance warning of the intended action , nor to give him any opportunity to make representations before the intervention notice is served . |
| 21 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 22 | For example , desperate politicians tend to fall back on it to appease working class voters in the United States and the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The proposed legislation relies on it to find technical solutions that are cost effective while permitting the development of its technology . ’ |
| 24 | Crumbling masonry means the Dolphin Centre needs millions spending on it to make sure it is safe . |
| 25 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 26 | The longer that the muon sticks to the helium , the less time is left for it to catalyse further fusions . |
| 27 | For it to do this , it must have some long-term effect . |
| 28 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 29 | At one time , estate agents were entering sufficient lots for it to hold 100 sales a year in the City or in the New Connaught Rooms . |
| 30 | There was no need for it to re-cover old ground . |