Example sentences of "to it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 3 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 4 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 5 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 6 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 7 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 8 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |
| 9 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 10 | Against the egotism of the preoccupation of being with itself , he posits a relation of sociality , whereby the self instead of assimilating the other opens itself to it through a relation with it . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | The digesta text introduces the disposition as a legacy ; apart from this , the texts are in accord : the petitioners speak of a legacy , and the jurist refers to it as a trust . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In part it 's down to S&M mainstream fashion ; in part to the rise of interest in all forms of body art ; in part to the fact that gays are turning to it as a form of safer sex ( hardly the sort of thing that should be criminalised ) . |
| 15 | With the best will in the world , no-one could refer to it as a training scheme . |
| 16 | Details are hard to elicit from the texts , since in AD 529 it was abolished by Justinian , who later brusquely referred to it as a tenebrosissimus error . |
| 17 | He was introduced to it as a game played in the garden before coming north from Devon in 1970 . |
| 18 | Both tables conceal significant variations in responses between readers of ‘ quality ’ and ‘ tabloid ’ newspapers ( Table 1.3 ) : the former remain wedded to their preferred medium , using it much more extensively as a means of surveying the world in depth , whilst readers of tabloid newspapers rely more heavily on television and also tend to attach greater credibility to it as a source of news ( Table 1.4 ) . |
| 19 | Release 2 also provides performance improvements through an enhanced Virtual Memory Manager and asynchronous input-out put using the AIX/ESA Communications Server , which is claimed to enhance usability and performance for those connected to it via a channel or local network-attached RS/6000 . |
| 20 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 21 | With a stick he flicks paint on to it from a can . |
| 22 | An Iron Age fortification on North Berwick Law is still visible despite the damage done to it by a quarry which provided stone for many of the town buildings . |
| 23 | This in turn stems from the quite understandable confidentiality on commercial grounds imposed on CSM for all the information supplied to it by a drug firm . |
| 24 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 25 | A predator may have scented what you see and beaten you to it by a matter of an hour or so . |
| 26 | It had a stub of pencil attached to it by a string and the paper list was grubby , most signatures illegible . |
| 27 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |
| 28 | I 'll get to it in a minute . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Shall we listen to it in a minute , please ? |