Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 2 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 3 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 4 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 5 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 6 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 7 | The barrage initially had been aimed at the civilians but Maj Waters said as it got closer to the convoy , two trucks had been damaged . |
| 8 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 9 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 10 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 11 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 12 | It refers also to the reproduction of the labour force . |
| 13 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 14 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 15 | MARRIAGE — It refers both to the social institution that sets up and sanctions the union of persons of opposite sex ( see family ) and to the state of being married . |
| 16 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 17 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 18 | This , again , is no declaration of open season ; it points merely to the obvious fact that moral agents must necessarily set the agenda . |
| 19 | And it contributes greatly to the reading of all text in ‘ character 's voice ’ — the kind of text exemplified in this chapter . |
| 20 | This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum . |
| 21 | It rarely achieves its objectives in creating jobs or increasing production , and it contributes significantly to the tropical deforestation which is a current world concern . |
| 22 | One is that in an economic evaluation of this kind — which is , incidentally , the only appropriate kind — the assumed price of replaced fuel ( mainly coal ) is critical , as it contributes directly to the size of savings . |
| 23 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 24 | It goes straight to the stomach . ’ |
| 25 | you come in our front door there , that was a passage , when you get a draught from the front door , it passes this door and it goes straight to the back , down the stairs and back |
| 26 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 27 | Oh it will change again as soon as it goes round to the , to the three four one again er y you do n't see it changing it but |
| 28 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 29 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 30 | It goes on to the erm . |