Example sentences of "it [verb] to this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 2 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 3 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 4 | Would it object to this treatment of its old dwelling before the proper rites had been observed ? |
| 5 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 6 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 7 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 8 | And what happens then , the electric current , as we know , flows backwards and forwards and it gets to this bit here and there 's a break , so what does it do ? |
| 9 | Remark Whilst this proof uses the " contradiction method " it gets to this contradiction by supposing the existence of a counterexample , hence , by principle W , a smallest counterexample and thence the contradiction . |
| 10 | It survives to this day . |
| 11 | That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless . |
| 12 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly culpable in inspecting and exposing the contents of papers of a private nature belonging to the professor which had by accident fallen into his ( the Secretary 's ) hands . |
| 13 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly improper , in suppressing a Letter addressed to the general Committee . |
| 14 | In fact it seems to this reviewer that Quinton 's framework offers essential support for Eccleshall 's vision of Conservatism , in that the axioms Quinton describes provide for a specifically Conservative conception of political authority and social discipline . |
| 15 | The differing needs of the sailing and powerboating skipper are well illustrated by the different format of these two companion volumes which , it seems to this reviewer , tread a successful line between the flexibility needed by different owners and a too regimented approach . |
| 16 | Nature sustains our feeble reason , and prevents it raving to this extent . |
| 17 | So I thought I 'll have it cut to this length . |
| 18 | Hence it is a duty which every race owes to itself , and to the human family as well , to cultivate by every possible means its own strength ; directly it falls behind in the regard it pays to this duty … it incurs a penalty which Natural Selection , the stern but beneficent tyrant of the organic world , will assuredly exact , and that speedily , to the full . |
| 19 | It conformed to this pattern , with plenty of free time and many independent meals . |
| 20 | This discovery precipitated the Red Lake Gold Rush , and their find became the Howey Gold Mine , the first in the Red Lake district , resulting in Burnt Bay being renamed as Howey Bay , the name that it retains to this day . |
| 21 | The Ley eventually reverted to the Garnstone estate and has long been a farmhouse , which it remains to this day . |
| 22 | It remains to this day one of the most potent monuments to racial segregation . |
| 23 | The Victorians made the gardens the highlight of the Old Town , and it remains to this day an ideal place to sit and relax . |
| 24 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 25 | Lindsey 's Corsair was delivered in 1953 and served initially with 12 Flotille , coded ‘ 12F.22 ’ and later moving across to 15 Flotille , where it was coded ‘ 15F.22 ’ , markings that it carries to this day . |
| 26 | I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the |
| 27 | Pannick is in many respects a mild reformer : more of a Gorbachev than a Yeltsin when it comes to this version of the one-party state . |
| 28 | but before it comes to this meeting |
| 29 | so when it comes to this morning , you |
| 30 | ‘ Sorry , but I 'm definitely a coward when it comes to this sort of thing . ’ |