Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 2 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 3 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 4 | It literally came to light by accident when it fell out of a bag — it was God 's will , I suppose . ’ |
| 5 | Someone just mentioned , yeah , it just sprang to mind , someone just mentioned er , the options on moving , if you , cos |
| 6 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 7 | 2 weeks ago it finally came to trial 2 weeks ago and today was the day of judgement , but she 's still waiting . |
| 8 | This track offers a splendid high-level walk free of traffic ; it finally descends to Dent by way of Flinter Gill after passing below a hilltop crowned by a group of old cairns known as Megger Stones . |
| 9 | The sooner that that road undergoes a major programme of improvement , with it possibly increased to motorway status , the better . |
| 10 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 11 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 12 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 13 | Even in its most calm state it still resonates to brain waves that vibrate at eight cycles per second . |
| 14 | I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up , but what else can I do ? |
| 15 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 16 | It hardly amounts to ordinariness . |
| 17 | It also plans to roll-out a sub-$5,000 range of Alpha PCs later this year . |
| 18 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 19 | It also came to light that Mrs Dyer was a close friend of another convicted baby farmer , Margaret Waters . |
| 20 | It also hopes to short-circuit any notions the vendors might have of building their own OSI stacks . |
| 21 | However , since it applies whatever the age of the woman , it also extends to behaviour which is not otherwise dealt with by the criminal law . |
| 22 | It also has to fact the threat of potential domestic unrest as the IMF structural economic reform programme it has adopted begins to bite . |
| 23 | For the same reason that UCP Article 25 applies to air waybills it also applies to sea waybills . |
| 24 | By stimulating demand in the world economy it both added to inflation and , on the positive side , helped European industrial output to continue growing even after post-war reconstruction was achieved . |
| 25 | It originally closed to freight traffic on 14 May 1984 . |
| 26 | This process can be fairly sterile done individually , but it really comes to life when pairs or groups of children discuss the possible answers . |
| 27 | This makes it well suited to road use while it is still sturdy enough to cope with bumpy paths and tracks . |
| 28 | Is it then restricted to ritual , stereotypical or culturally symbolic forms ? |
| 29 | It then reverted to flour milling and was producing flour and animal feed up to the early 1920s . |
| 30 | Then it has to decide if it actually wants to shrink-wrap the stuff , and finally whether to go ahead and put together a marketing and distribution effort for the completed product . |