Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the management agreed to that policy er and subsequently erm the , the main machine shop was the first er er department to go on to it . |
| 2 | It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it . |
| 3 | They should either just touch the floor — no gap between hem and floor — or be allowed to fall down to it in folds , Thirties style . |
| 4 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 5 | that 's right , that 's right and now that he 's shaken off the Scottish Office I invited him to come along to it as well so we may find |
| 6 | Erm if you want to come along to it 's a black comedy . |
| 7 | And he would try to stand up to it , the sudden blast of her love ; she could feel a brave little determination to withstand it , and even an intention to return it . |
| 8 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 9 | We know that their violence has to be confronted , that people have to stand up to it . |
| 10 | He takes it slowly , lets everyone have his say , and if they do n't agree he does n't mind calling an extra meeting to come back to it . |
| 11 | It was then very hard to come back to it . |
| 12 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 13 | ‘ And we shall continue to come back to it until you tell me what was in it . ’ |
| 14 | I can not do it yet but I am trying to come round to it . |
| 15 | ‘ It depends whether they want to own up to it . ’ |
| 16 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 17 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 18 | The front door opened before she had time to walk up to it , and there was Philip , smiling a welcome to her , and behind him was her daughter-in-law . |
| 19 | Your instincts tell you to hurry back to it and clearly you are right ! ’ |
| 20 | How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming . |
| 21 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 22 | I 'm beginning to look forward to it . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't object ; she seemed to look forward to it , in fact . |
| 24 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 25 | if you 've booked it , I said you ought to look forward to it but er , I suppose it 's just come over her |
| 26 | If you come out to nothing like I did and you 've been a prostitute and know it 's easy money — well you 're going to go straight to it again . |
| 27 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 28 | ‘ And you expect me to give in to it , to some biological urge ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps the only way to end this is to give in to it , ’ Travis offered , unconscious of the fact that his thumb began to caress her skin . |
| 30 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |