Example sentences of "[adv] to it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 2 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 5 | As such , it has effected significant changes in some of the Bills sent up to it by the Commons . |
| 6 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 7 | You could get up to it by the stairs to the roof . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had already read the book but the film matched up to it in every way , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 11 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 12 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This reversion to collusion is the carrot to induce the deviant to accept whatever is meted out to it in the punishment phase . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm you can come back to it at the end if you 've done everything else , but there 's something about these that er I think you 're one . |
| 17 | This combined with the smell of their droppings and the musky odour of the birds themselves , makes such colonies very smelly places and has led to the suggestion that the birds may use the smell to guide themselves back to it through the darkness of night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now erm just just by way of look I 'll just interrupt this slightly I 'll come back to it in a second . |
| 21 | I take a few steps then , remembering my hold-all , push my way back to it like a drowning man . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 24 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 25 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 26 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 29 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 30 | 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 . |