Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 2 | He was always talking about it and it caused much worry to his mother Sadie and her husband Daniel . |
| 3 | It seemed almost to speak to her . |
| 4 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 5 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 6 | That means it took longer to get to me . |
| 7 | It was harder for the light to drag itself away , so it took longer to get to you . |
| 8 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 9 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
| 10 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 11 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 12 | Any liquid would gather in the ditch and there would be plenty of time to take preventive action , since it did not discharge to a stream for some distance . |
| 13 | It did not want to be left out . |
| 14 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
| 15 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 16 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 17 | It did not appear to be a case where there had been collusion between the employer and the driver to their mutual advantage . |
| 18 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 20 | The decline in profitability may have resulted in an unwillingness of British business to invest in industry in this country , but it did not lead to any scarcity of capital for investment . |
| 21 | In other words , it did not lead to the questioning of the validity of existing programmes , but instead re-costed them , thus providing updated costings ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p.98 ) . |
| 22 | As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class . |
| 23 | It did not matter to her anyway . |
| 24 | At the time it did not matter to us because I did n't want to go out with David . |
| 25 | It did not matter to them if Luke 's betrayal of his friends was the culmination of a long-standing feud between himself and Gallagher concerning land . |
| 26 | ( c ) As the shop assistant in Lambie said in her evidence , it did not matter to her what the accused 's credit status was at her bank because the shop would be paid whether the credit was good or bad . |
| 27 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 28 | It did not appeal to me , but when the preacher advanced to the platform and prayed , there was a transformation … |
| 29 | As an advertisement for the quality of the food , it did not appeal to Hilda . |
| 30 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |