Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body . |
| 2 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 3 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 4 | Suddenly it occurred to Willie that the church would soon be filled with people . |
| 5 | Apparently it does to others too , though they 're finding a couple of monolithic organisations holding up the flow . |
| 6 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |
| 7 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 8 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 9 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 10 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 11 | So it seemed to Fleury in his excitement , anyway . |
| 12 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 13 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 14 | He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand . |
| 15 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 16 | Finally it comes to Stone Ormanroyd did superbly well there . |
| 17 | Birth spacing is sometimes used synonymously with birth timing ( see intervals ) , but usually it refers to efforts aiming to achieve the " proper " ( healthy , economic or convenient ) timing of births either consciously ( by planning and controlling the timing of births ) or in accordance with traditions ( by following customs relevant to breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence which assure the " proper " spacing ) , and the results of such efforts as they are manifested in the birth intervals . |
| 18 | Yesterday it fell to John Major to announce that the Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate . |
| 19 | But the more the revival got under way , the more it responded to Rome 's own ethos , the less accommodating it was in regard to the values of either Protestantism or modern secular , liberal society . |
| 20 | The Doctor had grinned , rather sheepishly it seemed to Britta . |
| 21 | If ever it came to court ! |
| 22 | Later it came to Lord Eldon . |
| 23 | One year later it rose to 47% . |
| 24 | Ironically it fell to Cardinal Ottaviani , most conservative of cardinals , to announce the election of the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan to the papacy as Paul VI . |
| 25 | He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them . |
| 26 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 27 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 28 | Now it occurred to Alexei to wonder why no one had remarked on the phenomenon before now . |
| 29 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 30 | ( i ) Style is a way in which language is used : ie it belongs to parole rather than to langue . |