Example sentences of "[adv] to it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 2 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 3 | So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through . |
| 4 | They drove down to Causeway Bay where his junk was waiting , and were taken out to it in a sampan owned by an ancient Chinese in a lampshade hat . |
| 5 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | Possibly yes , he kind of like wants to erm move off but then he comes back to it in a minute though , so that does n't quite hold . |
| 8 | Now erm just just by way of look I 'll just interrupt this slightly I 'll come back to it in a second . |
| 9 | I take a few steps then , remembering my hold-all , push my way back to it like a drowning man . |
| 10 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And I reckon it 's right — ’ I pulled a map from my pocket , spread it upon my desk and whacked my finger down on to it at a very particular spot ‘ — here . ’ |
| 13 | The clerk , Robert Clive , was able not only to take Arcot by a surprise attack but also to inspire his little force to hang on to it during a 50-day seige in which a series of onslaughts on the citadel was beaten off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With a stick he flicks paint on to it from a can . |
| 16 | Serious iron deficiency is most likely to occur in chalky soils where , although iron may well be present , lime locks on to it in a chemical combination that then makes it unavailable to plant uptake . |
| 17 | He laid the ball back to Vasey , it was far too short , Ballwood latched on to it like a greyhound , drew Vasey , put the ball into the opposite corner and everybody all around was celebrating . |
| 18 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 19 | As a younger person I , I would expect that I 've probably got another fifteen years to go to the menopause , but I 'm looking forward to it as a relief from pre-menstrual syndrome ! |
| 20 | And t and th then , since the paper talk , that 's right , it 's nothing to do with it , but it may have a bit to do with justice , we 'll get round to it in a bit . |
| 21 | Beside the Ridgeway and effectively parallel to it as a lower level ran the Terrace-way , here called by the later name of " Pilgrims ' Way " , which passes through Upper and North Hailing to a crossing presumably in the Rochester area . |